The Northern Dimension, Russia and the Prospects for NEBI Integration

The above is the verbatim contents of item 109 of the Austrian EU Presidency’s conclusions from the European Council meeting in Vienna on 11–12 December 1998. And except for a few words under item 110 — on spent nuclear fuel and waste in north-western Russia — this was what the Presidency had to report under the much anticipated heading of ‘Northern Dimension’ (European Commission 1998b).