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Nr.38
juuli 2019

Policy Brief: Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections 2019 and Future of Ukrainian Foreign Policy

Abstract President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called snap elections in Ukraine 21 July 2019. Although there are 21 parties that are competing in elections, only five have enough support to enter P...

Nr.37
juuli 2019

Overview of EU Financial instruments for supporting Eastern Partnership and Accession countries

Abstract Present analysis presents comparative study of EU financing instruments available to EU Accession countries and to EU Eastern partners. In general the conclusion is that EU considers Eastern...

Nr.36
mai 2019

A Call of Unity, Security and Credibility: Reforming EU policy to the Ukraine Crisis

From Crimea to Donbass, and across the Azov Sea the European Union faces a challenge to its security and values unprecedented in the post-Cold War era. The annexation of sovereign Ukrainian territory,...

Nr.35
aprill 2019

Policy brief on the Ukrainian Presidential elections; results of first round and what could be expected from second round

Final voting results of the first round of elections resulted in Volodymyr Zelenskiy receiving 30.24%, Petro Poroshenko 15.95%, Yulia Tymoshenko 13.40%, Yuri Boiko 11.67%, and Anatoliy Hrytsenko 6.91%...

Nr.34
märts 2019

Political and Economic Developments in Ukraine on the Eve of Presidential Elections in Spring 2019

Ukraine has since Euromaidan revolution five years ago been going through difficult period of its development, as the Russian aggression against Ukraine continues. Nevertheless the twin shocks of the...

Nr.33
november 2018

Political Developments in Moldova

The topics of integration into the EU, the position of the breakaway region of Transnistria, relations with Romania and with Russia and popular discontent with widespread corruption dominate the polit...

Nr.32
juuli 2018

Outcome of the Armenia’s Velvet Revolution

The peaceful change of government in Armenia, called by its organizers the Velvet Revolution, and directed against authoritarian tendencies and widespread corruption took place in April and May of 201...

Nr.31
juuni 2018

Russian Geopolitical Thinking and the EU Eastern Partners

The geopolitical thinking and activities have been prevalent in Russian foreign policy discussions. Russian leaders have stressed the need to hold the former USSR republics under Russian influence. Th...

Nr.30
märts 2018

GEORGIA: MAIN TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN LOCAL LEVEL MEDIA LANDSCAPE

For this report three regions of Georgia (Kakheti, Shida Kartli, Samtskhe-Javakheti) were looked at closely and overall situation in the entire country was analysed as well. The general characterizati...

Nr.29
märts 2018

UKRAINE: MAIN TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN LOCAL LEVEL MEDIA LANDSCAPE

Strengthening ability to counter disinformation and understand the need for European integration among the media sector is of utmost importance to ensure fair and balanced reporting on developments in...

Nr.28
märts 2018

GEORGIA: NEEDS TO PREVENT AND COMBAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

While collecting information on waste management and media landscape in Georgia, many times the issue of violence against women came up in connection with different challenges and realities in the soc...

Nr.27
märts 2018

ARMENIA: REMAINING CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF GENDER EQUALITY PRINCIPLES

Armenia has ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and supported the adoption of a number of the Council of Europe Resolutions that are focu...

Nr.26
märts 2018

ARMENIA: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM - REMAINING GAPS AND NEEDS

Republic of Armenia has reformed the public administration system during last two decades, with the aim of making it more consistent with the principles of democracy and free market relations. This “c...

Nr.25
märts 2018

UKRAINE: STOCK TAKING OF PROGRESS AND REMAINING CHALLENGES OF DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS

Decentralization in Ukraine began in 2014 when the Government approved the main conceptual document - the Concept of Reforming Local Self-Government and Territorial Organization of Power. Subsequently...

Nr.24
august 2016

Revising the European Neighborhood Policy in Light of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War and the 2014 Ukraine Crisis

Russian aggression has created new realities on the European continent to which the current European neighborhood framework is no longer ideally suited. A reviewed ENP and EaP should be at the heart o...

Nr.23
veebruar 2016

Policy brief on European integration co-ordination arrangements in AA/DCFTA implementating countries: Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine

The policy brief was initially drafted to serve as a basis for discussions in Public Administration Reform Panel, EaP I multilateral track seminar on "Effective co-ordination of European integration i...

Nr.22
mai 2015

Anneli Kimber and Ehtel Halliste: EU-related communication in Eastern Partnership countries

In late 2013, the Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership made the development of EU-related communication in Eastern Partnership countries one of its top priorities by launching a comprehensive traini...

Nr.21
mai 2015

Thorvaldur Gylfason, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Per Magnus Wijkman: Filling the institutional vacuum in Eastern Europe

The Eastern Partnership (EaP) Summit in Riga in May 2015 provides an opportunity to survey the need to remedy serious deficiencies in partner countries’ progress toward the basic institutions necessar...

Nr.20
aprill 2015

Laure Delcour: In Need of a New Paradigm? Rethinking the European Neighbourhood Policy

Over the past decade, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has become much more than the policy framework governing the European Union’s relations with adjacent regions. Given the multifaceted and...

Nr.19
detsember 2014

Public Administration in EU Eastern Partners: Comparative Report 2014

The Estonian Centre of Eastern Partnership presents the fourth Comparative Report about public administration in the EU Eastern Partners. The report continues the annual examination of progress in the...

Nr.18
november 2014

Irakli Kotetishvili: Ukraine Turns to Europe: 6 Delayed Reforms after the General Elections

8 months have passed already since the new government came in to power and Ukraine has witnessed only very little change. Does this mean that long-awaited reforms are delayed? What are the burning iss...

Nr.17
aprill 2014

Alexei Sekarev: The Third Republic: Ukraine struggles its way through to Europe

After the Ukrainian People’s Republic of 1918-21 and the escape of the legitimate president, which sealed the fate of the independent Ukraine of 1991-2013, the nation identified itself anew. The Eurom...

Nr.16
detsember 2013

Comparative Study of Open Governance and Data Security in Eastern Partnership Countries

Open Governance Partnership has brought a renewed political attention to the questions of transparency and good governance into international arena. While we have heard a lot from the Digital Agenda o...

Nr.15
detsember 2013

The Post-Vilnius Challenges of the Eastern Partnership

This collection publishes the three presentations updated by taking into consideration the Vilnius Summit results. The papers ask questions about Eastern Partnership’s future. The challenges this poli...

Nr.14
november 2013

Comparative Report 2013: Public Administration in EU Eastern Partners

The Estonian Centre of Eastern Partnership publishes its third Comparative Report about public administration in the EU Eastern Partners. The report examines the progress of public administration refo...

Nr.13
november 2012

Comparative Report 2012: Public Administration in EU Eastern Partners

This annual comparative report is the second in the series established by the Estonian Centre of Eastern Partnership (ECEAP) in 2011. In chapter I, it describes progress of public administration refor...

Nr.12
oktoober 2012

Survey Report: Effective Management of EU Assistance by the Governments of Eastern Partnership Countries

The purpose of the survey was to assess how effectively the countries of the Eastern Partnership manage technical assistance rendered by the EU. This purpose was divided into the three objectives, whi...

Nr.11
detsember 2011

Comparative Report 2011: Public Administration in EU Eastern Partner Countries

This report attempts a systematic presentation of the public administration reforms (PAR) in the EU Eastern Partnership countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Its obje...

Nr.10
detsember 2011

Alexei Sekarev: Medium-term trade flows between EU27 and EaP6

This paper analyses trade flows between the European Union and its Eastern Partners within the sixyear period 2006-2011. It uniformly uses the IMF Direction of Trade statistics 2006-2010, as presented...

Nr.9
detsember 2011

Kakha Gogolashvili: The Conflicts in the South Caucasus

The split between the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) and the newly emerged Eastern Partnership (EaP) in 2009 marked a conceptual shift in the basic principles the EU used to apply to its neighborh...

Nr.8
detsember 2011

Per Magnus Wijkman: Fostering Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements

The Eastern Partnership1 Summit in Warsaw, 29-30 September, held forth the prospect of achieving some long-awaited results. The Joint Declaration2 announced that participants “look forward to the poss...

Nr.7
november 2011

Vahur Made: From Prague to Warsaw

There is no doubt that the question about the possibility and the perspective of the future EU membership continues to be the key issue for the partner countries of the Eastern Partnership in their re...

Nr.6
detsember 2011

Elsa Tulmets: Institution-Building Instruments in the Eastern Partnership

This policy paper reviews the instruments of institution-building – of support to the administrative capacity to implement policies – in the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership i...

Nr.5
detsember 2011

Kataryna Wolczuk: Perceptions of, and Attitudes towards, the Eastern Partnership

The Eastern Partnership is widely viewed by the partner countries as an improvement over the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). Yet, the EaP remains relatively unknown amongst the political elites:...

Nr.4
november 2011

Rafał Sadowski: The Future of the ENPI

The year 2011 is turning out to be a turning point for the European Union’s policy towards its neighbours in Eastern Europe and North Africa, as a result of the political developments in those countri...

Nr.3
november 2011

Anaïs Marin: Saving What Can Be: What the Eastern Partnership Could (Still) Bring to Belarus

The Eastern Partnership (EaP) failed to draw Belarus any closer to the EU. Sliding back into authoritarianism since the last rigged election of Alexander Lukashenka on 19 December 2010, Belarus illust...

Nr.2
november 2011

Kristi Raik: From Attraction to the Europeanisation - Moldova's Slow Movement Towards the EU

Since 2009, Moldova has been the strongest case of the EU’s model power in the neighbourhood. The EU has increasingly penetrated Moldovan domestic politics and policy-making, practicing external gover...

Nr.1
oktoober 2011

Laure Delcour: The Institutional Functioning of the Eastern Partnership: An Early Assessment

A new institutional framework was designed under the Eastern Partnership and it has been progressively established over the past two years to frame the increasingly close relationship between the EU a...

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