The EU hopes to bring its eastern neighbourhood into the fold suffered another setback last week.
Just days before inking agreements on political association and free trade, Ukraine suspended its negotiations, snubbing the EU, just as another neighbour, Armenia, did some weeks ago.
Two more countries, Georgia and Moldova, are set to initial such compacts with the EU next week. The remaining neighbours, the dictatorships in Azerbaijan and Belarus, are plainly unfit for upgraded re...
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Already a member? Login hereAndrew 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.
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.