The next phase of the EU’s Eastern Partnership will be launched this week. The approach set out so far fails to deliver – at this week’s summit, leaders should address the gaps.
Derek Averre, Senior Lecturer in Russian Foreign and Security Policy at the University of Birmingham, offers his thoughts on the latest ELN report “Defusing future crises in the shared neighbourhood”.
Dr Derek Averre of the University of Birmingham argues that Euro-Atlantic states must revive an intellectual framework that builds on the political and institutional engagement of much of the post-Cold War period. Only then can a workable dual track Russia policy come into effect.
Predictable election results in Belarus may still lead to improvement of Minsk’s relations with the EU .
Ioanna-Nikoletta Zyga sets out three areas where EU-NATO cooperation can be actively improved in light of the Ukraine crisis
James Rogers, argues that next EU Global Strategy needs to be succinct, assertive and reflect a comprehensive European ‘will to power’.