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Russia wants visa regime to be lifted automatically, EU member states remain sceptical. • EU-Ukraine association deal in the balance Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president,...

Endowment struggles to attract funding. The European Union is struggling to find the means to support democratic movements outside its territory. Foreign ministers meeting in...

Concern over democracy in Ukraine, call on Belarus to release political prisoners. A summit of EU leaders and five neighbours to the east ended in Warsaw today (30...

The EU must remain ambitious in developing ties with its eastern neighbours. On 9 October, Poland has nationwide elections to Parliament. About a dozen political parties are...

EU finds a common voice with which to criticise Viktor Yanukovych. When the European Union finds its voice on an urgent foreign policy matter, it is worth registering...

EU divided over the role of the Eastern Partnership. The EU's central European member states tend to see the partnership as a first step for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,...

Poland's chances of foreign policy success rest on its ability to juggle competing demands from the south and east. Poland is the fourth new-ish member state of the EU to...

Turf war shows deeper problems with the EU's neighbourhood policy. Europe's attitude to its southern neighbours has rarely come under such intense scrutiny as in the first...

Self-inflicted damage, as well as events, have left Hungary's and Poland's presidencies of the Council of Ministers floundering. It was meant to be the year when central...

Hungary says date clashed with G8 summit; meeting will take place in October or November. A summit of the European Union's Eastern Partnership scheduled for May has been...

Dozens of officials ‘were involved in election fraud', while Only the release of political prisoners will end ban. The European Union will shortly impose a travel ban on...

The visit to Minsk by the foreign ministers of Poland and Belarus raises hopes that the EU may find a successful policy toward Belarus. Now, consistency is needed. Last...

The Swedish and Polish foreign ministers call on the EU to prepare for another eastern enlargement Carl Bildt and Radoslaw Sikorski, the foreign ministers of Sweden and of...

An enjoyable book that examines the many challenges facing the European Neighbourhood Policy. From its inception in 2004, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has...

Russia wants the EU to commit itself to a schedule for the lifting of visa requirements between the two sides at next week's summit in Rostov-on-Don (31 May-1 June)....

Mediterranean scheme slow off the ground, while soft power of Eastern Partnership in question A year ago, the EU launched a new flagship programme to deepen links with its...

Belarus wants to develop relations with the EU, but the Union does not always respond in the right way. I write in response to an article you published on Belarus, “A...

The Swedish presidency should tour the EU's eastern periphery. After the war in Georgia at the height of last summer, the cutting-off of gas to Ukraine in the new year...

If another crisis hits eastern Europe in the summer, the US is likely to respond faster than the European Union. When the people who run the western world go on holiday, bad...

The EU membership bids of Croatia and Turkey could pose the biggest external relations problems for the Swedish presidency. The Swedish presidency will inherit two big...