article_snippet: Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said relations between Russia and the EU are likely to be 'prickly' for many years .
article_snippet: It comes amid warnings that relations between Russia and the EU are likely to be 'prickly' for many years.
article_snippet: Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said under Russia Russia had moved from being a partner of the West to seeing Europe as an 'adversary'.
article_snippet: Vladimir Putin's view of Russia's influence over former Soviet states 'puts Vladimir Putin's at odds' with the West, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.
article_snippet: Asked if that could trigger a new Cold War Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: 'I don't want to talk about cold wars, but We are clear that Russia has decided, Russia has made the decision that Russia wants to be in a strategic competition with the West, with Europe. '
article_snippet: It doesn't any longer see We as partners, It sees us as competitors or even adversaries and that means that us are going to have a difficult, prickly relationship with Russia probably for some time to come.'
article_snippet: Mr Hammond claimed Mr Putin believed Mr Hammond had 'some kind of strategic veto' over the freedom of action of former Soviet states. '
article_snippet: That puts Mr Hammond, frankly, at odds with our view of the post-Soviet settlement in Europe,' the Foreign Secretary said.