Ukraine
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7 February 2012
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Immigration
Bulgarian passport opens doors to West
7 December 20113Trud Sofia -
Editorial
Our neighbour Putin
2 December 2011Presseurop -
EU-Ukraine
Don’t pulls the blinds down on Kiev
25 October 20113Postimees Tallinn -
12 October 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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Eastern Partnership
Summit fails to tackle big issues
3 October 20113PresseuropPresseurop -
Eastern Partnership
The East, not on the EU’s mind
29 September 20111Polityka Warsaw -
EU-Ukraine
Association agreement on track
26 September 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
23 September 20111Respekt Prague
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5 August 20113PresseuropNezavissimaïa Gazeta
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Eastern Partnership
A policy that moves slowly, but surely
11 July 2011Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
A town in Europe
Przemyśl's double life
28 June 2011La Croix Paris -
Diplomacy
5 billion to aid Arab revolutions
26 May 2011PresseuropEl País -
21 April 2011L'Hebdo Lausanne
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Neighbourhood Policy
Ukraine gets visas, but not free trade
23 November 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Ukraine / Europe
Back to the Stalinist future
24 August 2010Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Enlargement
EU’s backdoor thrown open
16 August 20102Le Figaro Paris -
28 May 20102Irish Independent Dublin
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Ukraine / Russia
Kiev and Moscow love-in worries Europe
28 April 2010Presseurop -
Geopolitics
Revolutions fail to change the East
11 March 2010Tygodnik Powszechny Cracow -
Editorial
Brussels-Kiev-Moscow
5 March 2010Presseurop -
Ukraine
Yanukovych woos EU
2 March 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
10 February 2010PresseuropRevista 22
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Geopolitics
United, but not with Europe
9 February 20102Wprost Warsaw -
Elections
Ukraine turns blue
8 February 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Ukraine
Moscow looms over election
15 January 20101Le Monde diplomatique Paris -
Editorial
All quiet on the Eastern front
11 December 2009Presseurop -
10 December 2009El Mundo Madrid
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Moldova
Christmas with the Europeans
30 November 2009PresseuropJurnal de Chisinau -
26 November 2009PresseuropPolska The Times
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Diplomacy
EU earns pat on head from Russia
19 November 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Ukraine
Kiev still stuck in limbo
13 November 2009Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Ukraine/Poland
Flu at the gates
2 November 2009PresseuropPolska The Times -
Prevention
EU redoubles efforts to fight AIDS
27 October 2009PresseuropLa Stampa -
Ukraine
Kiev's EU ties weaken
16 October 20091PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
30 September 2009Die Zeit Hamburg
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28 September 2009PresseuropEvenimentul zilei
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23 September 20091Handelsblatt Düsseldorf
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Romania
New tourism likes it dark
1 September 2009Evenimentul zilei Bucharest -
Turkey
Go East
19 August 2009The Guardian London -
Czech Republic
New slaves of the building trade
6 August 2009PresseuropLidové noviny -
Immigration
Wilkommen to Romania
14 July 20091Le Monde Paris -
European Union
Brussels begs $4 billion for gas-strapped Ukraine
26 June 2009PresseuropPolska The Times
Macedonians, Moldavians and Ukrainians are jostling to obtain a Bulgarian passport. Many plan to leave for other countries in the European Union, but first they must confront the Bulgarian administration. 
Although the recent sentencing of the former muse of the Orange Revolution, Yulia Tymoshenko, has raised doubts about the independence of the Ukrainian justice system, the EU should not give up on dialogue with Kiev, which remains eager to build relations with the EU. 
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.
The trial of the former premier resumes Sept. 27, three days after the visit of President Yanukovych to Russia. It’s a game of high strategy between Kiev and Moscow, in which Europe has a role to play too. 
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. 
Not far from the Ukrainian border, the small Polish town of Przemyśl is one of the eastern gates of the Schengen area. But people on both sides continue to keep up close ties, and small trade thrives under the tolerant eye of the customs officials. 
The clocks run backwards in the Ukraine: hardly six months have elapsed since the last elections and nearly nothing remains of the “Democratic Awakening” that rocked the nation in 2004. Writer Yuri Andrukhovych depicts the “internal occupation” of his country and implores Europe to watch closely what’s happening there. 
Millions of Turks, Serbs, Moldovans, Ukrainians and Macedonians could soon be European citizens, thanks to some fancy footwork by new member states 
The Eurovision Song Contest is not just a festival of tackiness, cheese and camp, argues Irish author Martina Devlin. It’s also a chance to have a look at the countries with whom we now have inextricable links. 
The Russians can keep their Black Sea fleet stationed in Crimea in exchange for cheap natural gas: the base-for-gas deal between Kiev and Moscow approved on 27 April by the Ukrainian parliament has made quite a stir in the European press, uneasy at seeing the Ukrainians turning away from the EU. 
In Ukraine and Georgia, "pro-Western" movements, which are hoping for a second wind even though they cannot count on support from the EU, are not only paying for their poor political performance but also for the fact that they no longer figure in Europe's geopolitical ambitions, explains Polish political analyst Olaf Osica. 
The good news is that from Asia to the Americas, an increasing number of countries are coming together to create unions inspired by the EU. And the bad news? In the long term these entities may overshadow the EU on the world stage, worries Polish weekly Wprost. 
The first round of the presidential elections on 17 January will see post-Communist Victor Yanukovych’s pro-Russian camp facing off against the pro-Western party led by incumbent president Victor Yushchenko and his prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Five years after the “Orange Revolution”, relations with Moscow, the country’s formidable neighbour and main gas supplier, still weigh heavily on electoral politics in the Ukraine. 
Changing our energy system is the key to curbing CO2 emissions and global warming. In the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15), the European Union has announced plans to generate 20% of its energy using renewable sources. 
The European Union refuses to give Ukraine a shot at EU accession, thereby leaving the country without any bright prospects and slowing its stabilisation. This will go down in history as a huge mistake, foresees the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Ankara is the neighbour Europeans still won’t let into their club. And yet the country behind the Bosporus is soon to become the communication hub for energy supplies bound for Europe. Die Zeit doubts the EU can go on snubbing the Turks indefinitely.
Pressing ahead with its worldwide expansion agenda, China is now snatching up contracts in highly-indebted Eastern Europe. Beijing is hell bent on out-leveraging the Western competition there by offering dumping prices and cheap loans. But this is not just about fat contracts, writes the Handelsblatt: the Middle Kingdom is also buying political sway.
Memorials for massacres, genocides and catastrophes of all kinds are magnets for tourists. Every year, places such as Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Ground Zero, and Auschwitz attract millions of visitors. In Romania, the Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Sighet prison aims to show visitors some of the horrors of the totalitarian state.
The EU rose out of the ashes of war. Perhaps, with a little patience and pragmatism, a Middle Eastern Union is not such a distant fantasy. And Turkey, as East-West linchpin, is well-placed to be that unifying force. 
Since becoming a member of the EU, Romania has attracted waves of African, Indian, Afghan and Iraqi immigrants. Hailing from Somalia, Kasim thought he was on his way to Germany when unscrupulous traffickers dumped him deep in the heart of the Romanian countryside...