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Filat (l) with EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

Taking the Eastern Partnership further

Today’s summit of the Eastern Partnership in Warsaw is an important date for EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours.

Despite its successes, the Eastern Partnership is not without its critics, not least because it does not offer an accession perspective to the EU. But what I personally believe in is that if we do not see the light at the end of the tunnel, we should just walk faster. The faster we walk, the sooner we will see it. And the Eastern Partnership is both a compass and a m...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Filat (l) with EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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