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2019 marks the 10
th
anniversary of the Eastern Partnership, a political initiative the EU launched in 2009 for developing relations with six eastern countries of the former socialist bloc. The collaboration program with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine was primarily intended as a means for introducing these countries to the European experience and approaches to developing their economies, political institutions and civil society. Given current events, however, Russia has a highly negative perception ...
... only then, from the historical perspective to give the money.
Understanding of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership initiative is impossible without recalling... ... reforms at Europe’s expense.
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Dmitry Danilov:
Ukraine: Non-Bloc Transit
Since 2014, the European instrument of neighbourhood and partnership... ... successful virtually overnight, and
exerted a tremendous pressure
on such countries as Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to transform themselves just as fast.
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Russia and the...
... immediately after the August war in Georgia, the European Union decided not to become involved in a direct confrontation with Russia. Instead, the European Union decided to strengthen its relations with the six countries to the east, specifically Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
I think we are going to see a similar intensification of the European Union’s ‘Eastern policy’, including its relations with Ukraine. The new Ukrainian government is far more committed to close cooperation with the European Union than its predecessors. Most probably the Association Agreement with ...
