New E.U. Security Committee May Be Established With Russia

Germany and Russia have proposed a joint European Union-Russian security committee for regional issues, reports the E.U. Observer.

There is currently the Political and Security Committee in Brussels at the ambassador-level that is assigned to deal with security issues.

That entity could be developed to boost contact between the E.U. and Russia at the foreign minister level, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who met on Saturday outside Berlin with Russian officials.

"We...