The European Union is slowly but steadily restoring its once lost position towards peacemaking and establishing order in conflict regions. In short, it is trying to replace the USA, which being presently busy with the financial crisis and pre-election presidential fever is not in the mood for regulating conflicts. Inability to cope with the Talibs in Afghanistan, the failed attempt to establish democracy in Iraq and complete absence of ideas of restoring peace in the Caucasus resulted in the opportunity for the EU to begin its own game. The succeeded «Sarkozy-Medvedev» plan of settling the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in essence became the first real signal indicating that European politicians have ceased to look back at the USA and are eager to prove that problems can also be solved in the Old World, with their own strength.