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The EU, Russia and a less common neighbourhood: lessons reinforced by the Vilnius summit

The run-up to and outcomes of the Vilnius summit in November 2013 indicate that the Eastern Partnership is undergoing a period of crisis. This is primarily because the EU and its Eastern partners have not been successful at communicating their respective goals to each other and agreeing on viable methods for reaching them. The same applies to the EU-Russia relationship, which is becoming increasingly dysfunctional, especially with regard to the so-called common neighbourhood. Although the two policy areas interact, a clearer separation between them is currently more justified than a gradual conflation of the two approaches. The summit has highlighted a series of problems that, so far, have been addressed only sporadically or at the rhetorical level. The silver lining of Vilnius can be found in seeing it as an opportunity to analyze these problems systematically in order to modify existing policy to take better account of current realities. (author's abstract)

The EU, Russia and a less common neighbourhood: lessons reinforced by the Vilnius summit

Urheber*in: Stewart, Susan

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Alternative title
Die EU, Russland und eine zusehends weniger gemeinsame Nachbarschaft: Lehren des Gipfeltreffens in Vilnius
ISSN
1861-1761
Extent
Seite(n): 8
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
SWP Comment (3/2014)

Subject
Internationale Beziehungen
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
internationale Beziehungen
Außenpolitik
Nachbarschaftspolitik
EU
Russland
UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat
Ukraine
politischer Konflikt
Wirtschaftsunion
Zollunion
EU-Politik

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Stewart, Susan
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
(where)
Deutschland, Berlin
(when)
2014

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-391308
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Stellungnahme

Associated

  • Stewart, Susan
  • Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit

Time of origin

  • 2014

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