RIGA REVIEWED: Daniela Schwarzer of the German Marshall Fund offers this assessment for Playbook readers of the Eastern Partnership Summit, which ended Friday night: “The Summit reaffirmed the Eastern Partnership as the EU’s framework for its policy towards the six countries. Anything else would have been a symbolic surrender to Putin’s brutal challenge to this policy. Meanwhile, the summit reaffirmed a differentiated approach with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine seen as the front-runners for closer relations with the EU. The commitment to visa-free travel for them, provided they meet the necessary conditions, is key. Yet, the limits of keeping the six …read more
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