Eastern Partnership
Do we detect a neo-Finlandisation in the Eastern neighbourhood?
May 28, 2009By Michael Emerson The term Finlandisation has dropped out of current diplomatic usage, since Finland has long since quit this state of affairs and Russia is not the Soviet Union. But still the term has stuck in the terminology of international relations...
EU Seeks to Boost Partnerships With Former Soviet Republics
May 08, 2009By Lisa Bryant The European Union is seeking to bolster economic, trade and security ties with six former Soviet states through a key partnership agreement it is offering up at a summit in Prague. The effort is being viewed as a way to weaken Moscow...
Moldova's President Confirms He Won't Attend EU Summit
May 05, 2009Outgoing Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin says he will not attend the European Union's Eastern Partnership summit in Prague on May 7 and will send Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan instead. According to RFE/RL's Moldovan Service, Voronin said on April...
EU's Eastern Partnership Strains To Juggle Interests, Values
April 30, 2009By Ahto Lobjakas The draft of a document slated for release at an upcoming EU Eastern Partnership summit suggests the bloc is grappling with the task of making the program an ideal fit for all of its prospective partners. While the European Union will...
Michael Emerson: Synergies vs. Spheres of Influence
April 30, 2009With the approaching summit launch of the Eastern Partnership in Prague on 7 May one can ask whether the map of Europe is sliding further towards an increasingly marked division between competing EU and Russian spheres of influence, in which the contested...
EU calls authorities and opposition to dialog
April 28, 2009The European Union has called the Moldovan authorities and the opposition to a political dialog, Karel Schwarzenberg, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic presiding the European Union, stated to journalists. Summing up the Luxemburg...
EU Foreign Ministers Discuss Growing Eastern Instability
April 27, 2009By Ahto Lobjakas Keeping its eastern neighbors on the path to stability and prosperity has become a formidable test for EU foreign policy in recent months. As she unveiled an annual review of the bloc's European Neighborhood Policy, EU External Relations...
Who’s Afraid of European Citizenship for Moldovans?
April 25, 2009By Dan Dungaciu “An examination of the territory's tortured history helps explain the origins of this Moldovan identity confusion... Moldovan identity issues reach deeper than just into geography and citizenship but into their language and thus...
Europe's Double Failure in Moldova
April 21, 2009By Paul Maximilian Bisca Europe's passive attitude towards the ongoing crisis in Moldova shows that when faced with the choice between power and principle, the EU is all too eager to abandon its core values in exchange for apparent geopolitical gains...
Voronin: Eastern Partnership is encircling Russia like a ring
February 27, 2009On February 27, in an interview with Russia's “Kommersant” newspaper, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, the chairman of the Communist Party, rejected the country's participation in the European Union's proposed Eastern Partnership program...
