{"id":168,"date":"2013-10-16T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=168"},"modified":"2014-12-13T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T13:00:41","slug":"global-europe-centre-policy-paper-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2013\/10\/16\/global-europe-centre-policy-paper-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Europe Centre Policy Paper Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/gec\/GECpolicypaper1.pdf\">Building a Stronger Eastern Partnership: Towards an EaP 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Union has been working to deepen the economic and political relationship with its Eastern neighbouring countries over the recent years. A set of formal agreements are intended for signature between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova and the South Caucasus states at the Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit scheduled for 28-29 November 2013. These agreements have provoked a response from the Russian Federation which is seeking to offer an alternative set of economic relationship to the exclusion of the EU.<br \/>\nIn the first Policy Paper to be published on Wednesday 16th October 2013, the recently created Global Europe Centre (GEC) sets out a reform agenda that the EU needs to adopt towards the EaP states to enable a more binding relationship. The paper argues that the EU needs to define a \u2018next generation\u2019 objective for the EaP as it enters the implementation phase of the current set of Association Agreements (AAs). The proposal is that the EU should set a European Partnership Community (EPC) status as a bilateral and multilateral goal for the EaP. The paper contends that there is urgency for the EU to think more strategically vis-\u00e0-vis its neighbourhood, and create a more clear-cut place for Russia to avoid the current situation of divisive competition.<br \/>\nFurther, the EU needs to reform aspects of its current EaP policy. The EU needs to define a clearer, and measureable set of objectives for its role in the resolution of the \u2018frozen\u2019 conflicts of its Eastern neighbourhood; refresh its policy towards Belarus; speed up visa liberalisation to ease travel for citizens of the EU\u2019s neighbouring states; and deepen and broaden civil society engagement by investing more in deep democracy, linkage and people-to-people contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a Stronger Eastern Partnership: Towards an EaP 2.0 The European Union has been working to deepen the economic and political relationship with its Eastern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2013\/10\/16\/global-europe-centre-policy-paper-launch\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131001],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}