The EU is quite literally a re-imagining of the USSR. Full socialism, increasing limits on personal expression, the loss of free speech, a confederation of disparate nationalities, a highly centralized government that has a wealthy nomenclatura, and last, an aggressive expansive foreign policy. The EU is the USSR without Russian cultural points included.
If the Russians influence them it would probably be a small move towards sanity and good citizenship in the world.
In other words, the EU is striving to become like Russia.