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The five-day war in Georgia has exposed an apparent crisis in the approach to co-operative security in Europe. The European Union and NATO have found it difficult to deal with this crisis and are increasingly in disagreement with the key actor, Russia. Against this background, a succession of politicians have brought the OSCE into play again. Recently, in Evian, Nicholas Sarkozy, on behalf of the EU Presidency, suggested an OSCE Summit in 2009 and found Russian President Dmitry Medvedev open to the idea.