Parteneriatul estic: începutul refluxului procesului de extindere a Uniunii Europene? (The Eastern Partnership: the beginning of the ebb for the EU enlargement?)

Abstract

he aim of this paper is to highlight the geopolitical limits and the strategic weakness of the European Union in his approach concerning the enlargement policy and the Neighborhood Policy after the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine. For this reason, the research will examine the evolution of the Eastern Partnership since February 2014 after the annexation of Crimea by Russian Federation and the start of war in eastern regions of Ukraine until present. Also, the paper will examine the impact of the dynamics of the Eastern Partnership for the Eastern European Partners, especially for Republic of Moldova.

Keywords

• European Union
• enlargement
• Eastern Europe
• Russia
• security
• geopolitics