The EU's actorness in the Eastern neighbourhood

What is it about?

This chapter argues that the EU’s actorness has not succeeded to exercise transformative power and resilience-building at its full potential in the East-ern neighbourhood owing to both internal and external limitations. Domesti-cally, the post-Soviet space appears to have gradually lost its appeal among the EU member states, while the European institutions seem now much more focused on solving internal systemic challenges. Externally, Russia’s coun-teractions to block the aspirations of the former Soviet states to further inte-grate into the EU cooperation frameworks have thwarted the Union’s policy agenda towards its neighbours and pushed it, in turn, to act cautiously in the region.

Featured Image