Ask any of the EU’s six “Eastern Partners” what the Eastern Partnership policy means to them, and you’re likely to get several answers. Ask the EU, and you’ll get something else entirely.
In response to these differences — which will once again be on display as leaders gather in Brussels for the fifth Eastern Partnership summit — the EU has adopted an approach aimed at the lowest common denominator. That works well for its less ambitious partners: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. But to the most pro-European countries — Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine — it sends a discouraging, and potentially harmful, …read more
Source: European Voice
