ولكن هذا لم يحدث هذا في الماضي لأن حكومات الاتحاد الأوروبي سارعت جميعها إلى حماية مصالحها الخاصة على حساب الصالح العام.
By acting together, the EU can protect those member states that are more reliant on and vulnerable to Russia. This has not happened in the past because EU governments have all scrambled to protect their own interests at the expense of the common good.