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A litany of blunders has exposed the EU’s irrelevance in its own neighbourhood and the inadequacy of its partnership with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Currently, these partnerships focus on the political and the economic. However, if Europe seeks a resilient and flourishing eastern neighbourhood, it must add a security dimension to its Eastern Partnership framework, as Taras Kuzio points out.
It is a year since a Russian brokered ceasefire ended hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia. That agreement strengthened Moscow’s influence in the South Caucasus and delivered its military boots in Azerbaijan under the pretext of peacekeeping.
At the same time, the agreement exposed the irrelevance of the European Union in its own neighbourhood and the inadequacy of its Eastern Partnership (EaP), which is the EU’s instrument for governing its relationship with the half dozen post-Soviet countries around the Black Sea – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Since then, a litany of blunders in the region has compounded the EU’s insignificance in the region. These missteps point to long known problems of a muddling EU foreign policy that – in the current geopolitical climate – has become unsustainable.
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It is a year since a Russian brokered ceasefire ended hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia. That agreement strengthened Moscow’s influence in the South Caucasus and delivered its military boots in Azerbaijan under the pretext of peacekeeping.
At the same time, the agreement exposed the irrelevance of the European Union in its own neighbourhood and the inadequacy of its Eastern Partnership (EaP), which is the EU’s instrument for governing its relationship with the half dozen post-Soviet countries around the Black Sea – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Since then, a litany of blunders in the region has compounded the EU’s insignificance in the region. These missteps point to long known problems of a muddling EU foreign policy that – in the current geopolitical climate – has become unsustainable.
How to solve EU’s irrelevance in its own neighbourhood | Clingendael spectator
A litany of blunders has exposed the EU’s irrelevance in its own neighbourhood and the inadequacy of its partnership with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Currently, these partnerships focus on the political and the economic. However, if Europe seeks a resilient and...
