EASTERN PARTNERSHIP – A TOOL TO CONSOLIDATE THE EU NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY

The consolidated method to expand the EU neighborhood policy, The Eastern Partnership, launching this spring in Prague, focuses the EU cooperation concerns towards the Black Sean and the Caucasian expanded area. Thus the close political and economic cooperation with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine will develop the stability and security in the Eastern space dominated by numerous challenges and threats of the former Soviet republics. The former achievements in the field of European neighborhood policy represent a guarantee of the states’ positive evolution due to the EU active and multilateral involvement in the Eastern neighborhood problems. The new multilateral cooperation regional forum is a priority for the EU and aspires to develop the dimension of the Eastern neighborhood policy completing thus the existent tools such as the Black Sea Synergy, a Romanian initiative opening the road to solving the Pontic-Caspian problems. This initiative promises a closer cooperation with the respective states which hope to gain a real support for a possible adhesion. In our approach of the Eastern Partnership, we will discuss about the initiative estimated impact on the respective states and its effect on the EU stability and security.