This week’s European summit was meant to give EU leaders an opportunity to consider relations with global powers, old and new: among them America, Russia, China, India and Turkey.

本周的欧洲峰会被来时用来给欧盟的领导人们一个机会来考虑新旧大国的关系：美国，俄国，中国，印度，和土耳其之间的关系。

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This week's European summit was meant to give EU leaders an opportunity to consider relations with global powers, old and new: among them America, Russia, China, India and Turkey.

本周的欧洲峰会被来时用来给欧盟的领导人们一个机会来考虑新旧大国的关系：美国，俄国，中国，印度，和土耳其之间的关系。

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We believe here we could agree on a qualitative upgrade to already existing relations between the EU and Russia from a very low level," Merkel said.

我们相信在这里我们能将现有的欧盟与俄罗斯的关系从很低的水平到有一个质的提升。

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Relations, he told the BBC, "should not be business as usual - they should be better than usual because there is a lot of untapped potential in developing Russia-EU relations on all fronts".

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Progress in EU-Russia relations has been painfully slow.

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Relations changed at an EU-Russia summit in May 2007, says a senior European politician.

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