Wider Europe

After Vilnius: Why the EU needs to rethink its Eastern Partnership

  • Stefan Meister
  • Commentary

The decision of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovitch not to sign the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement has plunged the EU into a deep crisis. Seen in its most positive light, this shock offers a potential “new start” for the policy. The EU should seize this chance

Ukraine and Bulgaria show power of EU model

  • Dimitar Bechev
  • Commentary

There are still countries in Europe where protestors enthusiastically wave the EU's star-studded flag rather than burning it in anger. These days Kiev's embattled EuroMaidan is as much the heart of the Union as the Schuman roundabout in Brussels. So who said Europe lacks a story and a cause?

The Ukrainian #Euromaidan

  • Andrew Wilson
  • Commentary

The outcome of the protests in Ukraine is uncertain. President Yanukovych is exploring re-negotiation with the EU; the opposition is getting more organised. But how should the EU and the world react to the situation in Ukraine?

4 Dec

Ukraine and the Eastern Partnership after Vilnius

  • ECFR London

After Ukraine's decision to suspend negotiations on signing an Association Agreement/Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU, where does the country and the Eastern Partnership go from here?

What if… the EU had offered a membership perspective to Ukraine?

  • Stefan Meister
  • Commentary

Commentators rue the “missed opportunity” of 2004 and present the membership perspective as a panacea. Instead, they should be asking what functions and demands the EU approach should fulfil and only then, whether a membership perspective would be suitable