Wider Europe

A Swedish-led listening tour of the East

The EU should start listening and involving the small and fragile states of the eastern neighbourhood, and the Swedish Presidency should be the body lead this “listening tour” charge

Reinvigorating the EU?s Eastern Policy

There will be dire consequences on the EU’s eastern border unless the EU rethinks its eastern neighbourhood strategy

Ukraine ? From Orange Revolution to Failed State?

Ukraine is bouncing from one crisis to another emergency. In a speech he gave in Washington, Andrew Wilson discussed the possibility of Ukraine becoming a failed state.

The foreign-policy solidarity gap

European solidarity is though but necessary ? especially in today?s economic, political and security climate

The quiet EU-Russia summit

This EU-Russia summit is set to be a big disappointment. Nicu Popescu discusses why.

Avoiding a new iron curtain

As European leaders travel to Prague for tomorrow’s Eastern Partnership summit, the Eastern neighbourhood states are experiencing the worst political, security and economic crisis they have faced since their independence in 1991

Moldavija – pozabljena de?ela na robu EU

Če v Bruslju ne bodo vodili “dejavne” politike do Moldavije, bo v njej zavladal avtoritarni re?im, kakr?nega imajo v sosednji Belorusiji

Russia’s EU Trojan horse makes a change

Bulgaria seems to have learned a lesson from January?s gas crisis ? Europeanise its energy resources. Vessela Tcherneva gives a first hand account of the Sofia Energy Conference.