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OK, let me get this straight... Baltic states have more importance because they are part of NATO and EU. Georgia wants to become part of NATO, French and German president block MAP and Russia pretty much uses this to invade the country...

it´s natural that EU states are more important to the Union than non EU states. and for georgia. recent actions just proofed that germany and france did the absolut right thing to block georgias NATO wish. this is why they will do it again. only god knows what the president of georgia would have done if he had been backed by a nato membership. this could have brought the world on a brink to WWIII because NATO would have been forced to protect georgia. and after all i have seen this “leader” of georgia should better not have the power to held NATO and the russians hostage only because his own interessts.

The whole point is that Russian president would not have done anything, which would have meant that Saakashvili would not have done anything either! With their “victory” at Bucharest Russians armed Kokoity and ordered him to start shelling Georgian villages... how would you like if Italians were to give Tirol arms to start shooting at Austrian villages - probably not very much.

The bottom line is; no one asks Europe to sever all relations with Russia, but there are tons of things in between you can do. e.g. Austria is a headquarter of one of the larger real estate companies which is purely FSB shop - why don't you guys investigate them. Because there was no FCPA type legislation in Europe, a lot of European companies, including, BTW very prominent Austrian banks have engaged in a rather questionable transactions with countries of former Soviet Union - why wouldn't you now investigate of all of this under new AML legislation which EU seems to be so proud! EU needs to hit them where it hurts the most... and these are not even Russian gas sales but accounts of Russian government officials comfortably sitting in account, including Austrian banks... what's wrong with that... most of that money came from arms trade or illegal activities anyway, so investigating such should not be a problem - in bloody fact that what EU legislation actively calls for!

And lastly, European Parliament certainly does not appear to share your views - see the resolution they adopted just yesterday...