The Eastern Partnership Vision after 2020 (original) (raw)
THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AT THE TURN OF A NEW DECADE: CONTINUING WITH UNCERTAINTY OR IDEAL CONDITIONS?, 2020
The last year´s update on the Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy celebrating its ten-year-anniversary had an intriguing question in its title “and where to go next?”, which is basically what has bothered the decision-makers, state officials as well as expert and civil society community over the last year. And while the celebrations concluded that the EaP has so far been a success bringing numerous concrete benefits to all six partner countries and the EU, there was also a general agreement on the need for reflection and looking for new ways forward beyond 2020.
Narrow Focus, Broad Vision: A Strategic View of the Eastern Partnership
In 2009, the EU's Eastern Partnership (EP) initiative was launched with high hopes of spreading some of the fruits of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements to the countries on Europe's eastern periphery. The main objectives of the program-targeted at six states, three in Eastern Europe (Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine) and three in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia)-have been to support these countries in terms of economic and political reform, socio-economic development, and other fields, with the long-term objective of promoting deeper cooperation with the EU.
Eastern partnership: history of emergence and functioning
Політикус, 2022
Introduction. The study of the history of the development and functioning of the Eastern Partnership is relevant in view of modern conditions. Since, with the launch of the Eastern Partnership initiative by the European Union, both within the academic environment and among practitioners, discussions continue not only about the forms of implementation, development prospects and chances of success, but also about the benefits that specific participating states receive. Purpose and objectives. The purpose of the article is to study the history of the emergence and functioning of the EU's Eastern Partnership. In order to achieve the set goal, the following tasks must be completed: to investigate the formation of the European Neighborhood Policy; to analyze the Eastern Partnership of the EU, in particular to determine the peculiarities of its establishment and functioning; outline the role of Poland in the formation and development of the eastern direction of EU foreign policy. Research methods. Research methodology is based on general and special methods of cognition. A systematic method was used to study the foundations and principles of the Eastern Partnership's functioning. With the help of the comparative method, common and distinctive features were revealed in the positions of Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan regarding the Eastern Partnership. The institutional method was involved in order to study the key institutional aspects of the formation and implementation of the EaP.
The EU's relationship with its neighbours to the east has long been founded on the aspiration to build a kind of partnership that does not automatically offer the prospect of membership to former Soviet republics apart from the Baltic States. The mechanism for this was initially the European Neighbourhood Policy, embracing a wider range of countries, which has been further buttressed by the Eastern Partnership initiative (EaP) in an effort to revitalize the partnership-building process in the east. Although more differentiated and versatile, the EaP has nevertheless inherited the Neighbourhood Policy's original conceptual limitations, especially concerning the ill-defined nature of partnership. Practical limitations, on the other hand, include the policy's lack of coherence and management, as well as its low visibility and public appreciation on the ground across the board. The East European response to the EU's initiative reveals further tensions and contradictions, especially pertaining to partner countries' geopolitics and cultural and civilization differences. It is clear that the EU's ‘politics of inclusion’ needs further conceptualization in order to shift the balance away from the EU towards the partner countries themselves. Only in these circumstances of de-centring can the notion of partnership become true and effective.
FUTURE OF EASTERN PARTNERSHIP, EXPLORING THE PRESENT AND NAVIGATING THE FUTURE
Strengthening research capacities of junior professionals and experts in the EaP region Project, 2020
This research paper was drafted by Mihai Țurcanu, within the framework of the Strengthening research capacities of junior professionals and experts in the EaP region Project, implemented by KAS Moldova. The author undertook to examine a topic proposed by KAS, worded as follows: “Future of Eastern Partnership, exploring the present and navigating the future”. The opinions expressed in this paper reflect the author’s understanding of the proposed research topic, and may, or may not, coincide with those of the KAS. The paper follows the original research plan which was drafted in application for the research proposal, because the author was contracted by the employer based on the approval of that plan.
Eight Years of the Eastern Partnership: Where have we come since Prague
On 24 November 2017, Brussels hosted the fifth summit of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) since its emergence in 2009 in Prague. “Over the last eight years, the EU’s eastern policy has gone through ups and downs and recently resulted in another high-level meeting of heads of states from the EU and EaP countries in the Belgian capital. The Brussels summit, as well as the policy itself, set of with high expectations, which were – for many – not met by the final declaration. Despite that, the Eastern Partnership has made a considerable progress and it is far from being doomed, or forgotten in the years to come,” examines Pavel Havlíček EU Eastern neighbourhood policy. The publication of the paper was supported by the NATO Public Diplomacy Division and the U.S. Embassy Prague and published as a background material for the international conference The Future of EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood: Political and Security Update.
Eastern Partnerships - for Security and Cooperation
Politické vedy, 2012
On 7 May 2009 a program was initiated under the name of the Eastern Partnership. This proposal from Poland, as supported by Sweden, aims to make the EU's Eastern policy more dynamic. The program is expected to facilitate mutual contacts between the EU and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. An important element of it is a multi-dimensional deepening of the relationship between the EU and the above mentioned countries at the political, security, economic and social levels.
The Eastern Partnership 3.0: Change or Continuity?
Dahrendorf Forum, 2020
In an effort to address multiple challenges the EU is facing in its eastern neighbourhood, Brussels has recently published a new strategy ‘Eastern Partnership Policy beyond 2020’. Elena Korosteleva, Irina Petrova and Igor Merheim-Eyre reflect on the proposed changes and argue that success will depend on the EU’s ability to realise the full potential of resilience, with a particular focus on local ownership and genuine partnerships.
The aim of this article is analysis of the European Union’s new initiative directed to the Eastern neighbours known as the Eastern Partnership. Article shows: firstly Poland’s role in the creation the concept of Eastern Dimension of the European Union. Secondly, the European Neighbourhood Policy as a frame for the Eastern Partnership. Thirdly, key features and potential contribution of the Eastern Partnership and finally assessment and implementation of the Eastern Partnership initiative.
The Eastern Partnership Initiative: A New Opportunity for Neighbours?
Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 2011
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The Eastern Partnership: An Interim Step Towards Enlargement?
2009
In 2008 the EU`s relations with its neighbours were marked by a particular interest. After the re-launch of its relations to the south with the establishment of the Union for the Mediterranean, a new initiative for the east immediately followed: the Eastern Partnership. The Partnership aims to intensify the EU`s relations with three of its eastern and three of its south-eastern European neighbours. This ARI examines the most recent developments in the neighbourhood, with a special focus on the latest Commission`s Communication on the Eastern Partnership, and also provides a short overview of the initial Polish-Swedish proposal. It then evaluates the impact of the initiative on already existing EU-policies Enlargement and European Neighbourhood and discusses the possible future development of relations between the EU and its eastern neighbours participating in the Eastern Partnership.
HARNESSING THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP: A WAY OUT FROM THE EAST EUROPEAN DEADLOCK?
On 7 May 2009, the EU summit with its Eastern European Partners (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine) in Prague launched the Eastern Partnership with a view to developing a specific Eastern European dimension of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). However, this EU initiative has been perceived by Russia as a geopolitical process because, on the one hand, of the wide-ranging consequences of what the EU thought to be a purely technical, norms setting process of modernization, and, on the other hand, since it saw it as competing with the Eurasian Union project instrumented by Moscow in the former Soviet space. At present, the area from Vancouver to Vladivostok was hijacked by a new East-West geopolitical confrontation, while powerpolitik rather than cooperative security seems to prevail in shaping the future destiny of Eurasia. Apparently, the Eastern Partnership has been at the core of this dramatic change of the European and Euro-Atlantic security environment. However, other factors, such as the growing ideological gap between Russia and the West; and the chronic persistence of the protracted conflicts have also been at work in bringing up the collapse of the post-Cold War European security system . What role did the Eastern Partnership really play into this tragic evolution on the European continent? What lessons could the EU learn regarding its relations with the Eastern neighbors?
Eastern partnership: unfinished gestalt
2009
On March 20 th the EU summit in Brussels adopted the final version of the EU's Eastern Partnership policy (EaP), which is aimed at the EU's closer integration with six post-Soviet states, including Belarus. Belarus is going to participate in the EaP as an equal partner, free from any preconditions. At the same time, Alexander Lukashenka's invitation to the EaP inaugural summit in May is still in the balance. New Words, Old Sense Just as BISS's earlier analyses 1 predicted, the Declaration of Eastern Partnership adopted by the European Council has been considerably amended as compared to its previous versions, published at the end of 2008.
The aim of this paper is to show Poland’s involvement in the Eastern Partnership initiative. The Eastern Partnership has both its proponents and opponents; and specialists often describe it as “an unknown and brilliant or well-known and unsuccessful project”. Among the countries of Central Europe, Poland has attached a special importance to relations with its Eastern neighbours since the 1990s. Poland’s foreign policy was primarily focused on integration into NATO and the EU in that decade, but good relations with its neighbouring countries, in particular in the East, also featured among its priorities. Poland is one of the biggest driving forces behind the EU policy towards Eastern neighbourhood. Warsaw has long supported the integration of its Eastern neighbours into the EU and NATO, and in 2008, it was one of the initiators of the Eastern Partnership, a EU’s policy towards Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Poland provides political and financial support to the Eastern Partnership countries on their road to the EU through establishing a political association, free trade and visa-free travel between the EU and the partner countries.