The Eastern Partnership: Time for an Eastern Policy of the EU? (2009:14epa)

Author: Anna Michalski

The Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in May this year as a strengthened policy framework between the European Union and six countries in Eastern Europe and southern Caucasus. The overall aim of the partnership is to ensure stability and prosperity in a region that is characterized by stalled socio-economic and democratic reforms as well as ethnic tension and even armed conflict.

In this context the EU offers closer relations based on deep and comprehensive free trade and regulatory alignment while foreign policy and security cooperation remains rather undeveloped. Will the EU’s approach be solid enough to engage constructively with the EaP countries and their big neighbour in the East?

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