How should the EU manage relations with its eastern neighbours? – with Viola von Cramon MEP

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🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It’s now nearly 12-years since the establishment of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) – a joint initiative bringing together the EU, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. In this episode, Will Murray speaks to Viola von Cramon-Taubadel MEP about the EU’s neighbourhood policy to the east and how it should move forwards.

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0:00.0	This is a common space.
0:01.5	EU podcast.
0:03.7	From the city of the Hague, welcome to Global Europe Unpact, a podcast about Europe's engagement
0:10.5	with its neighbourhood and a wider world.
0:13.1	The EU effort to really promote prosperity and democracy in the region gave us the Eastern
0:19.0	partnership we see today.
0:20.7	Hello and welcome to Global Europe Unpacked, the podcast that looks at the emerging trends affecting
0:26.0	the European continent and the growing ambition for the EU to become a global or geopolitical
0:30.8	power. I am your host, Will Murray, and in today's episode we're going to be looking at the EU's
0:35.8	Eastern neighbourhood, and particularly its Eastern Partnership Initiative.
0:40.0	Shortly, I'll be speaking to Viola von Kramman-Tiberdell,
0:42.9	a German member of the European Parliament for the Greens,
0:45.6	who will provide her insights over the EU's relationship with its eastern neighbours.
0:49.3	But first, here's my colleague Nina to provide some background.
0:53.4	In 2009, acknowledging the differences between the states in its eastern and southern neighborhoods,
0:59.7	the European Union sought to upgrade its neighborhood policy to the east
1:03.5	by accelerating political association and deepening economic integration with six post-Soviet partners.
1:10.4	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
1:14.2	Moldova and Ukraine. The Eastern Partnership Initiative was intended to provide an
1:19.6	institutionalized forum for discussion on visa agreements, free trade deals and strategic
1:25.0	partnership arrangements. Whilst EU expansion was and remains a controversial topic,
1:30.3	this was a way to integrate and prepare the partnership countries
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