Issue 6 of EaP Think Bridge Digest is out, with May overview of Eastern Partnership region and an article on the strengthening ties with EU

New issue of the monthly analytical EaP Think Bridge Digest

(Українська) Четвертый номер EaP Thinkk Bridge Digest с обзором основных событий Марта в странах Восточного партнерства и анализом противоречий в отношениях Беларуси и России

The thirds issue of EaP Think Bridge Digest is here with monthly overview and analytics in Georgian anti-corruption reforms

“Changemakers in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Mediterranean South” 13 – 18 June 2017 Odessa, Ukraine

The second issue of the Eastern Partnership Think Bridge Digest is out

With parliamentary elections in Armenia quickly approaching, a profound period of transition is nearing its apex.

Strengthening cooperation between Ukraine and Romania is a key issue of the European Neighborhood and Partnership Policy, as well as of the international cooperation in the Black Sea Region and the Wider Eastern European region.

Prism Security Dedates Post-Budapest For Ukraine

(Українська) Странам Восточной Европы следует сотрудничать на двусторонней и многосторонней основе, в рамках и за пределами партнерства НАТО, для усиления их устойчивости

The government has been obliged to submit its proposal on the ratification of the AA to the parliament by 1 November

De facto there is no doubt that Gutteres will be the ninth UN Secretary General.

Questions of Ukraine-EU security cooperation were discussed on 29 September at Prism Security Debates in Kyiv.

The European-ness perception and feelings are still nascent among Ukrainians

It is unquestionably that Chisinau can count on support from Kiev and Kiev, in its turn, relies on such support from Chisinau.

Both countries would definitely benefit more if they applied liberal and constructivist patterns rather than rational egoism

It is a test of being democratic without sacrificing one’s security, and being secure not at the expense of one’s democracy

What to expect form both candidates in foreign policy?

The four strategic options now available to Ukraine

There is an absence of a real interest in Alaska’s military development

Petr Lunak from Public Diplomacy Department, NATO HQ

#FututeNATO - the project of the Atlantic Council before the Warsaw Nato Summit

A long track marked with some progress and shortcomings

Is electoral security possible on the uncontrolled territories of Ukraine?

Lifting international sanctions seems the only incentive for Russia to comply with the Minsk agreements.

Moldova is stuck in corruption and polititcal battles that slow down its movement towards EU.

Ukrainian fatigue, the lack of positive image, "Minsk-2" process as both major success and greatest failure

Russia occupied Crimea against the background of a state vacuum in Ukraine and thedisorientation of the new Ukrainian leadership of the post-Maidan period

Вespite the fact that the most brilliant strategic thinkers were drafting NATO strategic concepts some important threats were overlooked

Russia does not clearly outline the perimeter of its vital interests, perhaps in an attempt to preserve some strategic ambiguity for NATO.

The mobilizing success of the moral shocks is interpreted through introducing the notion of emotional path dependence

By thinking that Europe is “finished business” NATO almost lost the feeling of importance and sense of partnership on its immediate borders.

External challenges in the form of an oil embargo in 1973, the above-mentioned “gas crisis” and the necessity to ensure energy imports have little effects on European foreign energy policy

the absence of hard security assurances to the partner countries within the framework of the ENP or under other EU’s policies provoked Russia to launch a hybrid war in Ukraine in 2014