The Vilnius summit at the end of November is expected to represent a landmark in EU policy towards the Eastern Partnership countries, with the likely signing of Association and Free Trade Agreements with some of these countries. In this Policy Brief Laure Delcour and Kataryna Wolczuk argue that...

In the current volatile climate, the EU needs a strategy towards Russia that goes beyond sanctions. In reviewing the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership, the EU's incoming leadership should be more sensitive towards the existing political, diplomatic, economic, energy and...

The paper questions the capacity of the European Union to influence developments in the South Caucasus – more specifically, to diffuse its norms and to act as a security supplier – against the current EU policy toolbox and objectives. It argues that the EU's influence stumbles on the lack of...

While the initial Commission Communication on Wider Europe (March 2003) did not include Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the forthcoming policy for the EU’s new neighbourhood, the Southern Caucasus region has now gained considerable attention in the framework of the ENP and beyond, not least...

This article analyses the extent to which and the way in which the European Union has acted as a security provider in its eastern vicinity since the European Neighbourhood Policy was launched. The EU’s capacity to emerge as a security provider and the approaches developed in this purpose are...

Since the beginning of the last decade the Union has more and more sought to pursue its migration policy externally, especially in its neighbourhood. Migration issues are salient under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) created in 2004. Neighbours indeed play a key role in migration flows...

The EU regards itself as the primary source for socio-economic modernization in the post-Soviet space, with the requirement for regulatory convergence with EU norms as its key mechanism. The Association Agreements consist of hard-law, legally binding commitments, but a higher degree of...

Drawing upon the policy instrument approach developed by Lascoumes and Le Galès, this article examines the representations and meanings underlying the Eastern Partnership’s tools and their effects on policy practices in partner countries. Based upon two sector-specific studies (EU instruments...

The European Neighbourhood Policy has, from its very beginning, seized the attention of scholars and has remained high ever since on the academic agenda. Among the large number of publications already produced, many have analyzed ENP objectives, methods and influence through a comparison with EU...