France and Berlin loved the détente with Moscow. Poland and Sweden did not. With active support from NATO, the “new Europeans” championed the EU’s Eastern Partnership with the post-Soviet states. It was no secret in Warsaw or Riga that this, like TPP, was a “de facto containment” policy. As far as Poland was concerned, the priority was clear. In the words of President Bronislaw Komorowski: “Never again do we want to have a common border with Russia.”17
