Preparing the EU Presidency: the Czech Contribution to the Project of "Eastern Partnership"
Preparing the EU Presidency: the Czech Contribution to the Project of "Eastern Partnership"

Summary/Abstract: The “Eastern Partnership” of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) is known in the European Union (EU) and abroad as a Polish–Swedish initiative to relaunch the relations with the eastern neighbors: Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and, to a certain extent, Belarus. However, it also represents one of the three priorities set in the field of foreign policy of the Czech presidency of the European Union starting on 1 January 2009, beside the Western Balkans and transatlantic relations.2 Why is the contribution of the Czech government to the definition of this new Partnership less well known? What was the real contribution of the Czech side to the EU policy?

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