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Webinar. COVID-19 in Eastern Europe: "New Year’s message from West to Eastern Europe: beware an “Omicron tsunami”

Within the EU the new Omicron variant is causing an explosive new wave of infections, resulting in more restrictive measures being taken in many countries. This new wave is not so far evident in Eastern Europe, but the worry is surely that it may be…

6th Eastern Partnership summit – joint declaration

The heads of state or government of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, the representatives of the European Union and the heads of state or government of its member states met in…

Op-eds

The EU and the Trio in the light of the Russian threats

The current Russian threat to invade Ukraine, aimed also at intimidating Georgia, creates a new political context for the EU to consider how to support more strongly all three Trio partners.  

And now Kazakhstan... in the wider European competition of democracy vs autocracy

Kazakhstan is Central Asia rather than Europe, but Putin has made it part of the European political equation by instrumentalising it as a key element of the Eurasian Economic Union, intended to counter the expansion of European Union’s…

Publications

Russia’s threat to invade Ukraine and Europe’s soft power

Vladimir Putin’s threat to invade Ukraine forces all parties to make their calculations with three fundamental variables. The first two have dominated public debate so far: the preparedness of Russia to go to war, and the possible impact of Western…

Georgia’s competitiveness in pharmaceutical exports

This paper is aimed at exploring Georgia’s potential in pharmaceutical production and export to the EU as well as to other countries. More specifically, it focuses on the analysis of production and export of medicines of the product…

Library

Opinion: The implosion of Kazakhstan was unexpected, and it has implications for the whole post-Soviet space

Top 5 advances and challenges in the EaP in 2021: pro-EU resilience and new sources of regional instability

Draft Agreement on measures to ensure the security of The Russian Federation and member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Draft Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees

Republic of Moldova in 2021: a retrospective of political change

6th Eastern Partnership summit – joint declaration

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