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Move follows agreement to protect EU car industry, but Georgia still refuses to back WTO bid. The European Commission and Russia today (21 October) resolved the last...

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,...

The mistakes of Georgia's president should not be used as a pretext to neglect a pro-Western country. Blinking, yawning and scratching, the European Union is waking up to...

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...

Georgia's prime minister is still better known as the man who brought light to his country. A t 36, Nikoloz Gilauri is one of Georgia's longest-serving ministers and –...

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...

Deployment "breaks" ceasefire terms. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, has said that Russian deployment of an anti-aircraft missile system in Abkhazia, part...

Leaders in the South Caucasus need to think regionally – and, to encourage that, the EU should keep a special representantive there. A ripple of alarm has gone through the...

EU leaders must speak up about the situation in the North Caucasus. At recent summits with Russian leaders, European and US leaders have largely been mute about the spread...

It would be good for Europe if that could now be translated into better relations with Poland. Lithuania thinks big. In the days of the late lamented Grand Duchy, it...

Georgia should have had the respect and sense not to destroy that Soviet war memorial in Kutaisi. War cemeteries are poignant places, better suited for reflection than...

How justified is disillusionment with Georgia? Six years ago on 2 November, Georgians went to the polls in what would prove to be a vote profoundly marred by fraud. Twenty...

The foreign ministers of Italy and Lithuania argue that the anomaly of Belarus's self-isolation may slowly be ending. Can Belarus, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin...

Europe's leaders need to start dictating terms to President Mikheil Saakashvili. If, in 2008, saving Georgia seemed to be the great success of Europe's foreign policy, in...

One year has passed since the conflict between Russia and Georgia and the picture is still foggy. One year after the Georgian war, its outcome is as debatable as the cause....

Governments trade angry words, but replay of last August's war appears unlikely. On the eve of the first anniversary of their short war over South Ossetia, Russia and...

EU now sole international mission in Georgia after UN and OSCE teams pull out. After the war last summer, an informal division of labour emerged between three international...

EU alone in Georgia as UN and OSCE pull out; insecurity continues on the ground. During his visit to Georgia last week (22-24 July), Joe Biden, the US vice-president,...

Five countries sign Nabucco pipeline agreement. Leaders of the five countries through which the planned Nabucco gas pipeline would pass have signed a crucial treaty in...

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...