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The Eastern Partnership in crisis

What is the likely impact of the crisis on the Eastern Partnership, the attempt to resuscitate the European neighbourhood policy and focus EU’s political attention on the East?

Overwhelming Logic

Spain?s decision to withdraw from Kosovo will come at a high price to its international image

Peripheral care should be the central concern

Unless the G20 summit comes up with practical measures to support the less developed countries, markets are going to suffer another sinking spell

Nuke Proliferation Stirs

As the world is approaching a new chapter in the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Iran and North Korea require a coordinated response, warns Fran?ois Godement

The others

There are two kinds of European in the continent today; those who have Europe and those who want it

A complicated relationship

Following France?s return to NATO military command this week, relations between Paris and Berlin remain complex

Europe needs to look again at Pakistan

Pakistan is the pivot around which revolves peace on the Indian subcontinent and the success of NATO’s mission to Afghanistan, argues Korski. But EU?s policy towards that country resembles its old technocratic and apolitical approach.

The return of “Eastern Europe”

The term “Eastern Europe” suggests a new division of Europe. But it also highlights how integrated and interdependent Europe has become.

More trouble ahead

Endless political infighting and the economy in the doldrums – as if the gas dispute weren’t bad enough, Ukraine is lurching from one crisis to another