Rome, March 25 -- The recent U.S.-brokered Russia-Ukraine peace talks highlighted growing divisions between Washington and Brussels, bringing trans-Atlantic relations to a historic low, an Italian geopolitical analyst has said.
Sergio Fabbrini, a political science professor at Rome's LUISS University, told Xinhua that the exclusion of Europe from the talks underscores the EU's declining influence in resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict, due in large part to the bloc's lack of unified foreign policy coordination.
"This episode reveals the European Union's structural weakness," he said during a university conference on Monday. "Without a central authority to speak for all members, the bloc struggles to assert itself on the global stage, pa...