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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
  • Europe must keep its 'soft power'
    Opinion piece by Carl Bildt
    Financial Times, 01 June 2005

    In the aftermath of the French rejection of the European Union constitution, on the eve of the Dutch referendum and amid political uncertainty in Germany, there is a growing risk that the EU will start to backtrack on its commitment to continued enlargement.
  • Ukraine should not be part of a 'great game'
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, Katinka Barysch, 08 December 2004

    In their reporting of the crisis in Ukraine, the world's media have focused on the pro-Yushchenko demonstrators. But while this manifestation of 'people power' has understandably grabbed the headlines, another, more sinuous tale has unfolded in the chancelleries and foreign ministries of EU capitals, Moscow and Washington.
  • Russia, the EU and Ukraine: Not a tug of war
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, 01 December 2004

    What has been the real choice in Ukraine's presidential election? To judge not only from the Russian media, but also from some western newspapers, Ukraine is the subject of a tug of war between Russia and the West.
  • How the EU should help its neighbours
    Policy brief by Heather Grabbe, 04 June 2004

    The EU has had huge success in using its enlargement process to help ten Central and East European countries along the path to becoming stable democracies and successful market economies. Can it do the same for its neighbours, such as Ukraine and Algeria?
  • Is Europe working?
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 01 January 2004

    With more than 14 million people out of work, unemployment is the EU's greatest economic problem. However, while EU policy-makers ponder Germany's 4.3 million unemployed, Britain's low labour productivity and Italy's greying workforce, they have missed one of Europe's key labour market challenges: eastward enlargement.
  • The EU's new borderlands
    Working paper by Judy Batt, 03 October 2003

    With the 2004 enlargement, the EU will acquire many new neighbours, some of them unstable states with fragile economies. This working paper explains why the regions along the EU's new eastern border matter for Europe's security.
  • Tough love for the EU's Eastern neighbours
    Bulletin article by Heather Grabbe and Henning Tewes , 01 August 2003

    After it embraces ten new members in 2004, the EU will have long borders with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Few people in today's EU know or care much about these countries.
  • Is an old versus new European divide replacing East against West?
    Bulletin article by Heather Grabbe, 03 February 2003

    Are there really two Europes, as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims? His assertion in January that France and Germany represented an 'old Europe' seemed confirmed by the emergence of a 'new Europe' just a few weeks later.