Five years after the adoption of the European Union Global Strategy (EUGS), the strategic objectives outlined in the document are still far from being achieved. This holds true especially regarding the strategic priority of investing in the resilience of the EU’s neighbourhood. Most Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries showed little or no resilience in the face […]
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world (…) The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats “The centre cannot hold.” This expression rattled around my head on the bus between Wrocław and Łódź. William Butler Yeats wrote these
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As September 15th is drawing near, Tunisia is attracting more and more attention. The young and fragile democracy is standing before its second direct presidential elections, soon to be followed by those to the People Representatives’ Assembly (Tunisia’s Parliament). These elections are of great importance as the country has been witnessing a considerable economic and
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How does a newborn country of 1.8 million inhabitants, struggling to be recognized by many, prepare for a future within the EU? According to Dhurata Hoxha, Kosovo’s Minister of European integration, the only future for Kosovo is a Euro-Atlantic one – in which Kosovo is strongly embedded in the institutional frameworks of NATO and the
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As Georgia endeavors to join the European market by signing [1] the DCFTA as part of its Association Agreement with the EU, new opportunities for political and economic cooperation await. For Georgia, the penultimate goal of this trade agreement is to boost its economic growth by accessing one of the most advanced market economies
Georgian Europeanization: Will “Modest” Competition Policy Reforms Merit Closer EU Ties? Read More »
Walking uphill from the Heydar Aliyev enbankment, along the Koura river, we were strolling the grounds of Tbilisi’s Saburtalo district. After passing shiny modern buildings under construction, we arrived early on Almasiani street, a dusty lane squeezed in between two huge concrete Soviet habitation blocks. We were going to meet exiled members of Azerbaijan’s shrinking
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