When the EU began to plan enlargement, it was important to define and establish a new relationship with the successor states to the Soviet Union. This paper traces the evolution of the EU's policy towards those successor states from 1991 until the present. In the 1990s the EU tended to treat the...

The enlargement of the European Union will establish a new relationship between the Union and the "outsider" states that lie outside that process. Surveys in the first half of 2000 in four of these states - Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine - found that attitudes towards the Union and the...

When the EU began to plan enlargement, it was important to define and establish a new relationship with the successor states to the Soviet Union. This paper traces the evolution of the EU's policy towards those successor states from 1991 until the present. In the 1990s the EU tended to treat the...