Armenia was the first ex Soviet state to succumb to Putin s pressure and shun the EU Eastern Partnership.

The first step in this process was the inclusion of Belarus in the EU's Eastern Partnership, a new framework for relations with six ex Soviet republics in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

The Swedish EU Presidency will concentrate on starting up the concrete work the nuts and bolts of the Partnership.

The Eastern Partnership is about EU integration, about the six countries moving closer to the EU s values, legislation, and ways of working, and about the EU being there to support and help this convergence.

This November, at its Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, the EU will decide on whether to proceed with an Association Agreement with Ukraine.

This will be a strategy of the whole European Union the Union, its institutions and the member States.

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Let us also grant some Mediterranean countries association status that will allow them to integrate progressively into the EU s internal market and participate in EU programs.

The Eastern Partnership does not offer any quick remedies to the crisis.

The Eastern Partnership is a typical long term EU technocratic instrument.

The Eastern Partnership was inaugurated by the European Union in Prague on 7 May 2009.

Since Kyoto s 1990 baseline coincided with German reunification, East German emissions could be included in the EU s initial data. British energy policy also shifted around that time, from reliance on coal to use of natural gas from the North Sea.

It is the Czech Republic s task, and that of the Swedish EU presidency that will follow our own, to maintain this unity as the PCA negotiations move forward.

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When the EU launched its new Eastern Partnership in May, the purpose was to promote further integration with the Union s six immediate eastern neighbors Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.

Coordination and cooperation with the European Union Special Representative, other European Union actors, and the rest of the international community is well developed.

The Eastern Partnership s offer of deep integration with the EU in the areas such as trade and energy carries with it considerable transformational power.

The EU s eastern policy should not be seen as philanthropy, but as a strategy promoting clear cut pan European interests.

We, like all EU presidencies, will be representing the wider Union interests when we negotiate.

The Eastern Partnership is based on the profound values of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.

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It is also a priority for the European Union.

The Eastern Partnership originating from a Polish Swedish initiative offers to the six countries a substantial upgrading and deepening of relations with the EU in key areas.

London European Union policy toward its neighbors to the east is in trouble, despite the launch of its new Eastern Partnership. European public opinion is increasingly introspective and sporadically protectionist.

As for the EU, the candidacies of Romania and Bulgaria need to be concluded successfully, together with the issue of Turkey's membership aspirations.

The Eastern Partnership is not an answer to all the problems and difficulties that the six partners are facing.

The idea for the Eastern Partnership (EaP) came from a Polish Swedish initiative early last summer.

In short, the EU will no longer be able to offer attractive membership prospects to neighboring countries, nor will it be able to allocate adequate resources for surrogate membership schemes like the Eastern Partnership.

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The second key issue concerns the EU s internal structure.

For the EU, the stakes could not be higher.

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EUFOR works in unison with the HR EUSR, European Union Police Mission, the European Union Monitoring Mission and the European Commission's assistance programmes to support both the stabilization and association process and mission implementation plan of the Office of the High Representative.

It was logical that Poland was the spiritus rector of the EU s Eastern Partnership, which led to EU association agreements with Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova. No other country has a stronger interest in the successful transformation of the EU s eastern neighbors, particularly Ukraine.

For the EU, Ukraine continues to be a serious problem.

The same principle ought to guide the EU.

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