Taking Stock of the Eastern Partnership in Ukraine, Moldova, Visegrad Four, and the EU

This publication is the outcome of a research project entitled ' Taking stock of the Eastern Partnership in Moldova, Ukraine and V4: examining the policy framework, tools and resources'. The project was carried out by the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) in cooperation with the Centre for Eastern Studies (Warsaw), the Centre for EU Enlargement Studies at the Central European University (Budapest), and the Institute of International Relations (Prague). It was implemented thanks to the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the International Visegrad Fund.

The aim of the research project was, first, to assess the achievements of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) since its launch in 2009 with a special focus on the EU’s engagement with Ukraine and Moldova; second, to evaluate the contribution of the Visegrad Four countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) to its implementation; third, to examine the results of the EaP when it comes to outcomes versus original expectations on the side of the EU and the partner countries; and finally, to identify potential improvements that could be made to all segments of the EU proposal, including policy framework, specific programs and tools applied within both the bilateral and multilateral tracks of the EaP.