One Year After Minsk II – Reviewing Options of Countering Russian Disinformation Efforts The migrant crisis and the subsequent political turmoil have banished from our minds a conflict that has been fairly present in Europe for the past two years: the war in Eastern Ukraine. By Mirko Moser-Abt
A New Attempt to Resolve the Ukraine Conflict There can be no normalisation of the relations with Russia as long as Moscow leads a war in the eastern Ukraine. This articles examines a new attempt to resolve the Ukraine conflict. By Ralf Fücks and Marieluise Beck
Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga: No bark or bite by EU leaders The Eastern Partnership summit in Riga has been tagged by the hosting Latvian minister of foreign affairs a “survival summit”. This implied that EU leaders might propose decisive actions to intensify relations with the Eastern Partnership countries in light of the Ukraine crisis. But to the disappointment of some of the Eastern European and South Caucasus countries, this did not happen. By Dominik Tolksdorf
The Constitutional Process in Ukraine The Ukrainian government should promote an inclusive, participatory and transparent constitutional process. Such a process could help de-escalate the current conflict and build confidence in the central government and its willingness to integrate all constituencies into Ukraine’s political system. By Dominik Tolksdorf
What the Association Agreement Means for Ukraine’s Reform Agenda On March 21, 2014 the political parts of the association agreement were signed between Ukraine and the EU. What does this mean, asks Dominik Tolksdorf: is the EU ready to put forward criteria for a reform in the country, and will Ukraine kick off such a reform agenda? By Dominik Tolksdorf
