Relations between Europe and Russia have been deteriorating for several years, but once manageable economic issues, including energy, are now being aggravated by much more volatile political differences. The risk is a climate of undisguised hostility, with potentially greater costs than during the nadir of the Cold War.
欧洲和俄国之间的关系几年来每况愈下，但是原先尚且可以控制的包括能源在内的经济问题现在正在由于更为起伏不定的政治分歧而恶化。现在存在毫不掩饰的敌对状态环境的风险，而潜在的代价要大于冷战时期最严峻的阶段。