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Michael Emerson is an associate senior researcher fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. University education: Balliol College, Oxford. He is former economic adviser the President of the European Commission, and former EU Ambassador to Moscow (1991-95). At the European Commission he worked on single market issues at the time that Jacques Delors was pushing through its implementation in the late 1980s, publishing "The Economics of 1992 – the European Commission’s Assessment of the Economic Effects of Completing the Single Market", Oxford, 1988, and "One Market, One Money", Oxford 1992. At CEPS he has worked on East European affairs, leading in particular a study that was precursor of the DCFTA, "The Prospect of Deep Free Trade between the European Union and Ukraine", CEPS and ICPS (Kyiv) 2006, produced by a joint European-Ukraine team (including Valeriy Pyatnitskiy); and "An Appraisal of the EU’s Trade Policy towards its Eastern Neighbours – the Case of Georgia", CEPS 2011.

Publications:

• Ukraine’s Alarming Demographics
• The Impressive EU-Ukraine Summits – Alongside the Inadequate Enlargement Methodology
• EU Accession Prospects of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia — first responses to the conditions set by the European Commission
• EaP Bulletin No 21: The Winter War – Putin’s Holodomor
• The $300 Billion Question: How to get Russia to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction
• Next Steps for EU Enlargement – Forwards or Backwards?
• Will the European Political Community actually be useful?
• EaP Bulletin No 20: The fast-changing map of Europe – views from Eastern Europe
• Interpreting the Commission Opinions on the membership applications of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, and next steps for the European Council
• The New Agenda for the EU’s Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policies
• Georgia’s dubious application for EU membership
• Opinion on Moldova’s application for membership of the European Union
• Opinion on Ukraine’s application for membership of the European Union
• EaP Bulletin No 19: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its impacts on Eastern Europe
• Putin enters the Hitler category
• Putin’s evil war
• Will Putin choose war, death and destruction?
• EaP Bulletin No 18. Message from West to Eastern Europe: beware an Omicron tsunami
• The EU and the Trio in the light of the Russian threats
• And now Kazakhstan... in the wider European competition of democracy vs autocracy
• Russia’s threat to invade Ukraine and Europe’s soft power
• Strategic Implications of the Green Deal for the Eastern Partnership
• What should the Georgia-Moldova-Ukraine ‘Trio’ do, and how should the EU respond?
• EaP Bulletin No 17: The Tragic, Deadly Vax-scepticism in Eastern Europe
• Deepening EU-Moldovan Relations: Updating and upgrading in the shadow of Covid-19. Third edition.
• Deepening EU-Georgian Relations: Updating and upgrading in the shadow of Covid-19. Third edition.
• Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations: Updating and upgrading in the shadow of Covid-19. Third edition.
• The EU’s Green Deal – basic information for neighbouring associated states
• The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe
• Joint letter of civil society representatives to the leaders of the EU on vaccine needs of the EU’s Neighbourhood
• EaP Bulletin No 16: Vaccination Emergency in Eastern Europe
• With Russia threatening Ukraine with war, what should the EU do?
• Remarks by Michael Emerson at the Ninth Ordinary Session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
• Joint letter of civil society representatives to the leaders of the EU the vaccination in Eastern Europe
• EaP Bulletin No 15: And now for vaccination
• Building a New Momentum for European integration of the Balkan and Eastern European Associated States
• Balkan and Eastern European Comparisons: Building a New Momentum for the European integration of the Balkan and Eastern European associated states
• New perspectives for EU-Ukraine relations in the pipeline?
• EaP Bulletin No 14: From Trump to Biden in the eyes of Eastern Europe (and the European Union)
• EaP COVID-19 Bulletin No 13: Devastating acceleration of COVID-19 across the whole of Europe
• EaP Bulletin No 12: Eastern Europe, between democracy and conflict
• Evolution of trade between the EU and its Associated States: five years after the signing of the DCFTAs
• Why the EU should now consolidate its front with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
• EaP COVID-19 Bulletin No 11: Adverse developments in Eastern Europe, in the shadow of the Coronavirus second wave hitting the EU
• EaP COVID-19 Bulletin No 10: A lot happened in August 2020
• The EU’s possible response to a post-Lukashenko Belarus
• EaP COVID-19 Bulletin No 9: EU, global and neighbourhood regional comparisons
• Recasting European values for the EU and the associated neighbours
• Future fundamentals for the Association Agreements between the EU and Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, and organisation of the wider Europe
• EaP COVID-19 Bulletin No 8: Political impacts of COVID-19
• Focus Group No.8 – Transport
• EaP COVID-19 Bulletin No 7: Economic and social impacts
• COVID-19 Bulletin No 6: COVID-19 in the Separatist Conflict Regions
• COVID-19 Bulletin No 5: Strategies for Unwinding the Lockdowns
• A post-Coronavirus Narrative for the Eastern Partnership
• COVID-19 Bulletin No 4: External Aid
• Association agreement between the EU and Georgia: European Implementation Assessment (update)
• COVID-19 Bulletin No 3
• The EU’s existential crisis, averted with compromise, for today
• The Covid-19 Shock to the Global and European Economy
• COVID-19 Bulletin No 2
• Reactions to the EU’s Communication on ‘Eastern Partnership policy beyond 2020’: A Vast Agenda - Some Advances and Disappointing Omissions
• COVID-19 Bulletin No 1
• 100 Ideas for Upgrading the Association Agreements and DCFTAs with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
• Focus Group No.6 – Environment policy
• Focus Group No. 5 – Energy policy
• Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine advance an EU+3 proposition
• The new EU leadership’s opportunity for an early win in Eastern Europe
• Next moves for the EaP & AA Trio: Updating, Upgrading & Wider Europe
• Focus Group No. 4 - Financial markets
• The strategic potential of Ukraine’s Zelenskyy
• New Russian bans on imports from Ukraine
• Focus Group No. 3 - Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary regulations (SPS)
• Zelenskyy’s lustration mistake
• Focus Group No. 2 – Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)
• Avant-garde, Core EU and Wider Europe
• Comparing gender gaps in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. A preliminary quantitative analysis of gendered datasets
• Towards a Wider Europe
• Scenarios for a Wider Europe
• Deepening EU-Georgian Relations: What, why and how? Second edition
• Deepening EU-Moldovan Relations: What, why and how? Second edition
• Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations: What, why and how? Second edition
• The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe
• Political and Economic Governance in the Balkans and Eastern Europe Compared
• Prospects for ‘Lisbon to Vladivostok’: Limited by a double asymmetry of interests
• The Strategic Potential of the Emerging Wider European Economic Area
• The Eurasian Economic Union’s problematic customs union
• Anti-Corruption Policies in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
• Should Ukraine aim to join the EU’s customs union?
• The Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention on Preferential Rules of Origin and its Benefits: A Comparative Analysis of its application for Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
• The radical changes in trade structures of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, towards Europe, away from Russia
• President Dodon’s visit to Brussels – Contemplating economic suicide
• Deepening EU-Georgian Relations: What, why and how?
• Georgia and Europe – A short guide
• Deepening EU-Moldovan Relations: What, why and how?
• Moldova and Europe – A short guide
• Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations: What, why and how?
• Ukraine and Europe – A short guide
• 2016 already puts its mark on the economic map of Europe
• An Introduction to the Association Agreements between the EU and Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
• A Household Energy-Saving Initiative for Ukraine
• Russia’s Punitive Trade Policy Measures towards Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia