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With the Russian invasion of Ukraine ramping up tensions in the Eastern Partnership countries, will the EU’s format survive?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine fundamentally challenged the Western approach toward international relations, security, as well as the West’s thinking on relations with Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe. The crisis means a particular blow to the EU’s Eastern Partnership policy that was launched in 2009 during the Czech EU presidency.
With the new round of the Czech Republic’s leadership of the EU coming on 1 July, there are ongoing discussions among member states and EU institutions on how to approach the Eastern Partnership in the future.
For some, the Russian aggression against Ukraine, which might soon be escalated in Moldova or Georgia too, brings an end to the policy as we know it, while others are trying to save what has been built over a more than a decade and helped to put at least some of the Eastern European countries closer to the European block.