Russia Eastern Partnership and Security of Black Sea area
Russia Eastern Partnership and Security of Black Sea area

Summary/Abstract: In June 2008, the European Council invited the Commission to prepare a proposal for an Eastern Partnership (EaP) with the aim of supporting regional cooperation and strengthening the EU's relations with its eastern neighbors. Following the conflict in Georgia and considering its impact on regional stability, the extraordinary European Council of September 1, 2008, called for this process to be accelerated. The Eastern Partnership aims to strengthen the political association and economic integration of six partner countries in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia., Republic of Moldova, Ukraine. Russia and Turkey are not integrated into the Eastern Partnership, as both countries have acquired a different status in their relationship with the EU: Turkey - candidate country; Russia - strategic partnership. The Eastern Partnership is a specific Eastern dimension of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). Through the ENP, the EU collaborates with its neighbors in the south and east to reach the closest political association and the highest degree of economic integration possible. Security, stability and prosperity, democracy and the rule of law in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus are a priority for the EU. It continues to test new equipment, people and methods in Syria. Russia is consolidating militarily in Crimea. So, in this situation with a rich Russian activity, what is to be done? The response of Western states is different. 1 A kind of appeasement (Germany and the largest country in Western Europe); 2 Resistance and limited containment (the US and some Eastern European countries). Our study tries to analyze these options.

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