“The associated trio is our message that there is no alternative to European integration for our three partner countries, and there is no alternative also for Europe, because they must perceive our three countries as a serious project to ensure peace and prosperity in Europe,” Kuleba told journalists on Monday, according to
Interfax-Ukraine.
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova have publicly stated that their aim is to become EU members and have signed association agreements with the bloc.
The other three countries within the EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) have no such plans. Belarus and Armenia have joined the Russia-led Eurasian economic Union, while Azerbaijan, rich in fossil fuels, seeks to maintain equal distance from Russia and the US, while enhancing its relations with Turkey.
Eastern Partnership: A relationship in the shadow of Moscow
More than ten years after its launch, the Eastern Partnership is still unknown to most people and a victim of an essentially Russocentric vision in Western Europe. Meanwhile, the lack of progress in the six Partnership countries is fuelling resentment, creating instability and tickling populist impulses.
Published on 8 April 2021 at 10:43
More than a decade on, the Eastern Partnership still has to fight off a lack of knowledge about the framework and Russia-centred views in Europe. Meanwhile, the stalemate in the Eastern Partnership countries feeds resentment, creates instability and stimulates populist impulses.
0 >Flags of the Eastern Partnership member countries, European Union and Estonia at the Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership. Source: Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership
Estonia is among 13 European Union countries calling for the COVID-19 vaccine to be made available to six neighboring European Union countries arguing our borders will not be safe if we do not extend our support to our immediate neighbours .
In a letter sent to the European Commission, it was written that there is strong support for the efforts and initiatives of member states and the European Commission to share the vaccines from the allocated contracts with the closest EU neighbours, such as the Western Balkan countries .
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