Armenia
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Eastern Partnership
The East, not on the EU’s mind
29 September 20111Polityka Warsaw -
Eastern Partnership
A policy that moves slowly, but surely
11 July 2011Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Diplomacy
5 billion to aid Arab revolutions
26 May 2011PresseuropEl País -
Armenia / Turkey
Erevan and Ankara talks stall
23 April 2010PresseuropZaman -
Turkey
Is the EU afraid of Ankara?
25 March 20101Le Soir Brussels -
Editorial
All quiet on the Eastern front
11 December 2009Presseurop -
Geopolitics
The new old order
20 October 2009The Independent London -
14 October 2009
As the Eastern Partnership summit opens in Warsaw, the EU, which is caught up in the ongoing financial crisis, appears to have little enthusiasm for the project, launched by Poland in 2008. As for the partner countries, they continue to present a wide spectrum of political systems, ranging from dictatorship to democracy.
Two years ago, led by Poland, the EU launched its Eastern Partnership with countries of the former USSR. Now that Warsaw is preparing to take over the rotating presidency, experts are painting a rather dispiriting outcome for this project. 
Following recent declarations by the Turkish Prime Minister on the deportation of Armenian immigrants, Europe's silence is testimony to the EU's ambiguous attitude towards the aspiring member state. Seen as not sufficiently European for immediate inclusion, Turkey is at the same time too important and powerful to be ignored.
With America increasingly disengaged from European affairs, and Russian influence tentative at most, the Independent wonders whether in this new age of alignments Europe might not be reverting to the order of old. 