Eastern Partnership
Ukraine, Moldova ask for EU help in creating Euroregion
December 22, 2009Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko and his Moldovan counterpart Iurie Leanca have signed a joint appeal for the European Union to use the financial mechanisms of the Eastern Partnership initiative to create the Dniester Euroregion, the Interfax...
CIS countries becoming West’s ‘cordon sanitaire’ to contain Russia
December 08, 2009By Paul Goble On December 8 is the 18th anniversary of the Beloveshchaya accords by which the leaders of the three Slavic republics agreed on the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but the most important meeting about the region on that date this...
EU's Eastern Partnership stuck in low gear
December 08, 2009By Ahto Lobjakas The EU's Eastern Partnership was launched with great fanfare in Prague in May. But just past the eight-month mark, it is becoming clear that neither the EU nor the six partnership members have high hopes for the grouping. EU documents...
EU to start negotiations with Moldova on Association agreement
October 20, 2009The first group of European Union experts will come to Chisinau this week to initiate negotiations on signing an agreement on Moldova's associated EU membership, it was said at the meetings Moldova's senior officials held here with Karl Bildt, the Minister...
Moldova may seek EU integration with Ukraine
October 06, 2009New Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has told RFE/RL's Moldovan Service that Chisinau might seek "common action" with Kyiv in its efforts to join the European Union. Moldova and Ukraine are among six former Soviet republics that have been...
Post-election Moldova: Relations with Romania, IFI, EU
September 28, 2009Excerpt from the radio program “Moldovan Foreign Policy Debates” broadcasted on Radio Vocea Basarabiei, on September 6th, and produced by the Foreign Policy Association (APE) in collaboration with Imedia News and Analysis Agency and with the...
EU suspends the Eastern Partnership Program, Swedish PM said
July 03, 2009The European Union is suspending the Eastern Partnership Program “due to new challenges”, the EU Chairman-in-Office, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has announced. Reinfeldt said the step had been taken in connection with EU...
Moscow Plays It Smart In Moldova, As Others Dither
June 29, 2009By Louis O'Neill The "Big Daddy" of U.S. Democratic Party politics in the 1960s and '70s, Jesse Unruh, had a wonderfully ribald saying about the role of money and influence in the business of government: "If you can't drink a lobbyist...
New Developments in the Belarusian Opposition
June 15, 2009By David Marples The oldest opposition party in independent Belarus, the Popular Front, appears to be on the verge of yet another split within its ranks, one that according to its leader Lyavon Barcheuski, might result in its extinction. On June 20,...
Moldova crisis is an opportunity for the European Union
June 10, 2009By Louis O'Neill Events in Moldova have provided the European Union’s fledgling Eastern Partnership an early and excellent opportunity to prove its relevance and responsiveness to the six participants. The partnership was launched on May 7...