Partnership? What Partnership?
The EU's policy toward its neighbors to the east is in trouble, despite the launch this week of its new Eastern Partnership. The EU’s eastern policy should not be seen as philanthropy, but as a strategy promoting clear-cut pan-European interests.
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London – European Union policy toward its neighbors to the east is in trouble, despite the launch of its new Eastern Partnership. European public opinion is increasingly introspective and sporadically protectionist. So what is to be done about the “grey zone” to Europe’s east – the six countries that now lie between the EU and Russia? Inaction is unacceptable. The region has been badly hit by the economic crisis, made all the worse by internal political turmoil and serious security dangers.