Interview with Amb. Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine Has the Eastern Partnership succeeded? Can it be further improved? Ukraine considers the Eastern Partnership as a complementary track to our bilateral dialogue with the EU. It is clear that our main milestones – visa-free regime, Association Agreement, macro-financial assistance…
Economic cooperation was set as one of the Eastern Partnership key priorities. The basic alternative for further development of economic cooperation within the EaP and between the EaP and the EU is a two-step integration: Establishment of the Neighbourhood Economic Community of the Association Agreement signatory states; creation of the Common Economic Space of NEC…
In November 2017, Brussels hosted the fifth summit of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) since its emergence in 2009 in Prague. Over the last nine years, the EU’s Eastern policy has gone through ups and downs and recently resulted in another meeting of heads of states from the EU and EaP countries in the Belgian capital….
In March 2018, the EEAS and the European Commission officially relaunched multilateral architecture of the Eastern Partnership, following the results of the 5th Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels. Having endorsed “20 Deliverables for 2020” as a key roadmap for development of the region, the EU took a first major step in making the new EaP…
The current situation in Ukraine, on the one hand, and the issue of migration from different regions of the Middle East and North Africa, on the other, bring into light an unstable state of affairs with respect to the EU’s Neighbourhood security. This comes at a time when the EU is rethinking its greater purpose…
Belarus’s participation in the ENP is limited compared to other Eastern neighbours of the EU. The main reason for this is Belarus’s multi-vector policy toward the EU and Russia. The EU factor affects Belarus’s distance from the EU’s democratic norms and values, which leads to Belarus’s isolation from the ENP. The Russian factor shapes Belarus-Russia…
The conflict in and around Ukraine has sparked once more countless debates regarding the EU’s best course of action regarding Russia, as well as regarding Moscow’s actions and behaviour. It is clear that the events that shocked the world in 2014 caught the EU completely unprepared and have undoubtedly left the EU-Russia relations under unprecedented…
Despite the vast amount of research on the Eastern Partnership, little is known on the role of civil society in promoting the Association Agendas with Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine. The present article elucidates more comprehensively this aspect by highlighting the main challenges and puts forward recommendations for improving civil society participation in advancing reforms in…
In this article, the author researches the Eastern Partnership’s achievements and possibilities of further development. There is an attempt to find the reason behind the Eastern Partnership’s limited results. Special attention is paid to the Ukrainian case. There are scores of the Association Agreement of Ukraine and the EU’ implementation.
