A post-Coronavirus Narrative for the Eastern Partnership
A post-Coronavirus Narrative for the Eastern Partnership

Author(s): Michael Emerson
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, Economic policy, Welfare systems
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Civod-19;
Summary/Abstract: The coronavirus crisis, and the ‘Green Deal’ and digital agendas that will be resumed as soon as the pandemic subsides, are transformational shocks to the EU and ist relations with its close neighbours. These shocks could become the basis for important and positive developments in the EU’s neighbourhood policies. The EU is at work on unprecedented trillion euro responses to protect its own internal solidarity and stability. It has also announced significant measures of grant funding for all six Eastern Partnership states (totalling €626), and comprehensive macroeconomic loan assistance (totalling €3 billion) to the democracies of its neighbourhood, including the three associated states of Eastern Europe (Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) and the Balkans together.

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