EU and Russia are preparing for Nice Summit

EU and Russia are expected to relaunch the discussions on a partnership pact at the bilateral summit to be held at Nice, this Friday.
The move will be possible after, it seems, a successful work of conviction of Lithuania and Poland, who threatened a couple of days ago to block any kind of dialogue, mainly because the still tense situation from Georgia, where nothing is yet under control. Georgian authorities themselves asked EU to do not resume talks with Russia – suspended since August. As usual, Russians announced officially they will not accept any concessions on Georgia, stating that Moscow is respecting fully the cease-fire agreement. The agenda of the coming summit will be quite full - both on official and unofficial.
The question should be: how efficient and fair is, in fact, a relationship with Russia? EU and NATO in the post-Cold War institutional configuration built bilateral structures, whose great advantage was to discuss matters of common concern. But the last war in Georgia started without a previous consultation of Russia with its euro-atlantic partners. It is not any more the Cold War, NATO and EU included both of them former communist countries, also Soviet countries, among their members. In Moscow, the presidents changed and they are organized elections periodically, but, with the exceptions of the elections results, everything is still not possible to predict at a big extent.