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'The internal problems of the EaP countries and external threats posed to them by Russia will, if unchecked, lead to backsliding – if not worse' (Photo: Pixabay)

The EU Eastern Partnership summit - a rethink needed

Recently growing tensions in eastern Europe, such the Belarusian-Polish border and migration crisis or Russia's military build-up around Ukraine, are reminders of the incompleteness of the European unification project. But they are putting the EU's Eastern Partnership (EaP) programme at the centre of European politics.

On Wednesday (15 December), the EU will review this programme at the sixth EaP Summit with its official partners in eastern Europe, at Brussels.

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Hugo von Essen and Andreas Umland are analysts at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Their full report on a new vision for the Eastern Partnership is available here.

'The internal problems of the EaP countries and external threats posed to them by Russia will, if unchecked, lead to backsliding – if not worse' (Photo: Pixabay)

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Hugo von Essen and Andreas Umland are analysts at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Their full report on a new vision for the Eastern Partnership is available here.

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