Remember the Eastern Partnership? Launched in a flurry of ambiguous optimism in 2009, the European Union’s attempt to reach out to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine still staggers on, with a summit in Brussels on 24 November as the next point on a now somewhat threadbare calendar. In the run-up to that came a high-level conference in September, sponsored by Germany’s Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung, in Tbilisi and at the political foundation’s guest house on Italy’s Lake Como. …read more
It’s time to reboot the Eastern Partnership
