> I fail to see what is wrong about maintaining the spirit of the Budapest Memorandum. > It seems that many thoughtful EU statesmen, like Schröder, believe tha

> I fail to see what is wrong about maintaining the spirit of the Budapest Memorandum. > It seems that many thoughtful EU statesmen, like Schröder, believe that I believe one doesn't maintain the spirit of the Budapest memorandum by entering the board of directors of the largest Russian gas supplier and becoming director of the board of Rosneft, largest Russian oil producer, years after Russia invaded Crimea. Don't you think? But I concede Schroeder that he might have truly believed that he could keep Russia from invading Ukraine. Nonetheless mixing politics and business was a bad mistake on his part.