Golden carrots
With EU enlargement no more on offer, the EU?s neighbourhood policy faces increasing difficulties
Wider Europe
The EU’s sovereign neighbours
How are the EU’s Eastern neighbours different from “accession neighbours”?
Three fault lines
Pakistan, Congo and Ukraine are three fault lines separating us from the future
The EU and Russia’s gas
The solution to the Russian gas challenge lies not in foreign energy policy but in reform of the European gas market itself
On The Periphery Of The New World Order
When Barack Obama enters the White House as president in January 2009, what will change for the Balkans?
Czechs raise the stakes on Lisbon
All being well with Europe, the Treaty of Lisbon would now have been ready to come into force on 1 January. But all is not well
Russia’s push into wider Europe
With a new US president, what are the prospects for a more united trans-Atlantic position on how to deal with a resurgent Russia and the ?neighbourhood? states in between?
Georgian lessons for EU generals
As the dust of the August war in Georgia begins to settle, the EU is emerging as the nearest thing around to a winner. An article published in E-Sharp!
Belarus after its post-Georgia elections
The EU has eased its visa ban on Belarusian officials. Was this the right move? How far can Belarus, once notorious as the ?last dictatorship in Europe?, really change?
An overly comfortable limbo
Like Greece and Macedonia itself, the EU is too willing to accept Macedonia?s state of limbo