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  • Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
    Bulletin article by Rem Korteweg, 25 March 2013
    Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Don't create Eastern Eurosceptics
    Bulletin article by Heather Grabbe, 05 August 2002

    The EU is in danger of turning the east Europeans into eurosceptics, even before they join the Union. For the past decade, they have seen EU membership as about gaining a nice starry flag and a better way of life.
  • France, Germany and "hard-core" Europe
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 August 2001

    In Paris, thinking on the future of the EU tends to focus on two French worries. One is the decline of the Franco-German relationship, and the consequent threat to French influence.
  • Corruption in Eastern Europe
    Bulletin article by Liz Barrett, 01 February 2000

    Perhaps the greatest obstacle to the integration of Eastern Europe into the European Union - but the least discussed - is corruption. The problem is not absent in Western Europe or the EU institutions, of course, but in many parts of Eastern Europe bribery is endemic.