Introduction : questioning the foundations -- A more ambitious partnership for the neighbourhood? -- The supremacy of external governance -- EU partnership-governance in Belarus : towards policy legitimation? -- EU partnership-governance in Ukraine : a deadlock of ambitions? -- EU...

The crisis since August 2007 provides an opportunity to observe the workings of good governance institutions under an extreme stress test and in radically different political settings. Institutions such as independent central banks, fiscal rules and regulatory oversight of public finances were...