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  • A new neighbourhood policy for the EU
    Policy brief by Charles Grant, 11 March 2011
  • Who is winning Eastern Europe's great game?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 19 July 2010
  • Ukraine turns away from democracy and the EU
    Policy brief by Tomas Valasek, 15 October 2010
  • Belarus: An artful balancing act
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    International Herald Tribune, 23 February 2009

    Compared with most former Soviet states, Belarus has a lot going for it. The government is less corrupt than in neighboring Russia and Ukraine. Belarus has no oligarchs, since the state never sold its big companies, and social inequalities are low.
  • Georgia, Ukraine and energy security
    Bulletin article by Dieter Helm, 02 February 2009

    In January 2006 Russia interrupted gas supplies to Ukraine and triggered a short, sharp shock to Europe in its ever-growing dependency on Russian gas.

  • Pipe down, price up
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    The Guardian, 06 January 2009

    The Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute is turning from a bilateral spat into a regional crisis. EU countries that share a border with Ukraine have reported dramatic drops in the volume of gas deliveries.
  • Why Ukraine matters to Europe
    Essay by Tomas Valasek, 05 December 2008

    Until the war in Georgia in August 2008, the EU had taken stability beyond its eastern border for granted. Now it will need to become more active in this volatile region, in which Ukraine is the largest and most important country.

  • Russia, China and the Georgia dimension
    Bulletin article by Bobo Lo, 01 October 2008

    Russia’s relations with the West today are more problematic than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall. With talk of a new Cold War and of parallels with the great power rivalries that preceded the First World War, Moscow’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Beijing has been out of the spotlight.
  • Europe must bring Ukraine into the fold
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    07 September 2008

    In a spectacular case of bad timing, Ukraine’s government all but collapsed last week. President Viktor Yushchenko withdrew most of his deputies from the ruling coalition with Yulia Tymoshenko, the prime minister.
  • What does the war in Georgia mean for EU foreign policy?
    Briefing note by Tomas Valasek, 15 August 2008

    The war in Georgia divided the European Union instead of uniting it. Some member-states condemned Russia and gave (non-military) aid to the Georgian government; others accused Tbilisi of provoking the war.

  • The EU will want more from Serbia than arrests
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 25 July 2008

    On July 21st 2008, Serbian security agents hauled Radovan Karadzic off a bus in Belgrade and took him into custody. The long-wanted wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs now awaits extradition to the International War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY) in The Hague, where he stands accused of crimes against humanity for his role in the 1992-95 Bosnia war.