RESTORATION OF EUROPEAN SECURITY AND RETURN OF DIPLOMACY TO THE WORLD STAGE

ЗЕЧЕВИЋ Слободан (Институт за европске студије, Београд), szecevic5@gmail.com

Europe is affected by a war in which two large European countries, Russia with 144 and Ukraine with 45 million inhabitants, are participating. We are talking about significant global producers of energy and grains. The consequences of the war are felt by all the inhabitants of Europe, primarily through rising prices, inflation and falling rates of economic growth. While both sides remain resolute in their positions, at the same time some prominent diplomats, such as Henry Kissinger, are advocating the return of diplomacy to the international scene. Maintaining world peace and stability in the conditions of the proliferation of nuclear weapons requires the subtle skill of making compromises, but also the existence of an awareness of one’s own limitations.

Keywords: War in Ukraine, EU, sanctions, peacekeeping, diplomacy, economic crisis