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Analyses |
| Rafał Sadowski
On 19 November, the EU Council acknowledged that Moldova has completed the first phase of the Visa Liberalisation Action Plan (VLAP), and agreed that it can move onto the second phase. Fulfilling the VLAP should lead to the abolition of…
Analyses |
| Rafał Sadowski
Over the past few months, Stefan Fule, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, has expressed a positive approach in his statements to offering prospective EU membership to the countries located in the…
OSW Commentary |
| Rafał Sadowski
The European Union and Ukraine initialled the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area Agreement (DCFTA) on 19 July 2012. The scope of the agreement which the EU and Ukraine reached following their negotiations is much more extensive than…
Analyses |
| Rafał Sadowski
The action conducted on 4th July by a Swedish advertising agency, whose staff flew a civil plane from Lithuania over Belarus and dropped nearly 900 stuffed teddy bears with anti-government leaflets, caused a serious diplomatic conflict…
OSW Commentary |
| Artur Ciechanowicz, Rafał Sadowski
Following the victories of François Hollande in the presidential election and the Socialist Party in the parliamentary election, the existing model of relations between Germany and France as symbolised by the Merkel-Sarkozy duo is…
OSW Commentary |
| Rafał Sadowski
In 2011 the European Union began a process aimed at reforming its policy on the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood. The change in circumstances in neighbouring countries following the Arab Spring, along with the lack of significant…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz Iwański, Anna Kwiatkowska, Rafał Sadowski
The stakes in the political conflict between the EU and Ukraine over Yulia Tymoshenko are the future of the Eastern Partnership (EaP), and thus the whole of the EU’s eastern dimension as a tool for the progressive, sectoral integration…
Analyses |
| Rafał Sadowski
On 17 April, the interior ministers of France and Germany, addressed a letter to the minister of justice of Denmark, which is currently holding the EU presidency, with a proposal of amending the Schengen Agreement. They want the member…
Analyses |
| Rafał Sadowski
The European Union started negotiations on visa facilitation and readmission agreements with Armenia on 27 February, and with Azerbaijan on 1 March. In its conclusions on 27 February, the EU Council also noted progress in negotiating…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński, Rafał Sadowski
By ratcheting up the tension with the EU, Minsk is hoping to reinforce the divisions between those member states which are primarily interested in developing economic cooperation with Belarus, and those that advocate taking a firm stance…