East Meets West - Reorienting the EU’s Central Asia Strategy
East Meets West - Reorienting the EU’s Central Asia Strategy

Author(s): Michael Emerson, Johannes Linn, Natalia Mirimanova
Contributor(s): Jos Boonstra (Editor), Neil Melvin (Editor), Natalia Mirimanova (Editor), Nafisa Hasanova (Editor), Aigerim Duimagambetova (Editor), Anne Harrington (Editor)
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, Energy and Environmental Studies, Economic policy, Environmental and Energy policy, International relations/trade, Economic development, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Geopolitics
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: European Union; Central Asia Strategy; international relations; energy policy; water dispute; trade agreements; international trade; western market; cooperation;
Summary/Abstract: The European Union approved its first Central Asia strategy document in June 2007 for the period 2007-2013. From the EU’s perspective, the Central Asia Strategy (CAS) rounded out the strategic approach towards its Eastern neighbours, which includes its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), its Eastern Partnership (EaP) and its bilateral relationship with Russia enshrined in the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), which is currently subject to negotiation for a successor agreement. The CAS represents significant progress in focusing explicit attention on Central Asia as a region of significance for Europe, and in spelling out the key objectives and instrumentalities.

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