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Eastern Partnership: No future without the founding fathers

With the departure of the architects of the Eastern Partnership, Carl Bildt of Sweden and Radosław Sikorski of Poland, the European Union’s most important project is on the verge of collapse.

31 October 2014 – Revista 22 (Bucharest) 13
Armenia-EU: Moscow makes Yerevan an offer it can’t refuse

“Armenia chooses Russia over EU,” headlines the European Voice after the news Yerevan will join Russia’s trade body the Eurasian Customs Union, instead of signing […]

4 September 2013 – Presseurop European Voice 4
Article: The front page

Madrid believes that the planned 2014 referendum on Catalan independence is illegal. In response to the plan, included in a regional coalition pact between two […]

20 December 2012 – Presseurop
Article: Today's front pages

“Three key events on Thursday”, announces Cinco Días, which points out that on the day in question: the markets are expecting the ECB to provide […]

3 September 2012 – Presseurop
Politique: Voter-viewer

4 May 2012 – I Kathimerini (Athens)
Eastern Partnership: The East, not on the EU’s mind

As the Eastern Partnership summit opens in Warsaw, the EU, which is caught up in the ongoing financial crisis, appears to have little enthusiasm for the project, launched by Poland in 2008. As for the partner countries, they continue to present a wide spectrum of political systems, ranging from dictatorship to democracy.

29 September 2011 – Polityka (Warsaw) 1
Eastern Partnership: A policy that moves slowly, but surely

Two years ago, led by Poland, the EU launched its Eastern Partnership with countries of the former USSR. Now that Warsaw is preparing to take over the rotating presidency, experts are painting a rather dispiriting outcome for this project.

11 July 2011 – Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw)
Diplomacy: 5 billion to aid Arab revolutions

Within the framework of its Neighbourhood Policy, "the EU has made democracy a condition for aid to Arab countries," headlines the daily El País. On […]

26 May 2011 – Presseurop El País
Armenia / Turkey: Erevan and Ankara talks stall

Leading with the front-page headline "Armenia deals blow to peace process with Turkey," Zaman reports that the rapprochement between Ankara and Erevan came to halt […]

23 April 2010 – Presseurop Zaman
Turkey: Is the EU afraid of Ankara?

Following recent declarations by the Turkish Prime Minister on the deportation of Armenian immigrants, Europe's silence is testimony to the EU's ambiguous attitude towards the aspiring member state. Seen as not sufficiently European for immediate inclusion, Turkey is at the same time too important and powerful to be ignored.

25 March 2010 – Le Soir (Brussels) 1
Article: All quiet on the Eastern front

Do strategic partnerships serve any real purpose? Eight months after the launch of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) with the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, […]

11 December 2009 – Presseurop
Geopolitics: The new old order

With America increasingly disengaged from European affairs, and Russian influence tentative at most, the Independent wonders whether in this new age of alignments Europe might not be reverting to the order of old.

20 October 2009 – The Independent (London)
STEPHFF, THE NATION (BANGKOK): The thaw begins

14 October 2009 – Presseurop

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