Per Carlsen was ambassador to Russia (2005–2010), Lithuania (1997), and Latvia (2010–2015); director of the Danish Institute for International Studies (2003–2005); and a senior advisor at the Danish Foreign Policy Society (2018–2020).
Danish Ambassador Per Carlsen was recently commissioned by Dmitri Trenin, head of the Carnegie Moscow Center, to provide his view on the developments in the Baltic Sea region in a blog format. Tragically, Per Carlsen passed away a day after he finalized this blog post.
Europe encompasses more than just the European Union; Russians are Europeans as well. As Russia continues to evolve, it needs wide-ranging efforts at modernization, and the European Union can certainly help. Yet Russia needs to work with the entirety of the EU, not only its larger members.
