Policy impact of the Eastern Partnership on Ukraine - Trade, Energy, and Visa Dialogue
Policy impact of the Eastern Partnership on Ukraine - Trade, Energy, and Visa Dialogue

Author(s): Alexander Duleba, Vladimír Benč, Vladimír Bilčík
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Environmental and Energy policy, International relations/trade
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: trade; energy; visa dialogue; Policy impact; Eastern Partnership on Ukraine;
Summary/Abstract: This policy paper examines the policy impact of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) on EU–Ukraine cooperation and on reforms in Ukraine within the following three sectors: trade, energy and visa-dialogue. It focuses on identifying those reforms in Ukraine within these three sectors that have been inspired by, and/or have resulted from, the existing institutional framework of the EaP. The examined period starts in 2009 when the EaP was launched; however, the contexts of previous developments are taken into consideration whenever they help to explain the reform processes within the examined period. The main idea of the research is to explore the added value that the EaP has brought to the partner countries, scrutinizing in particular the case of Ukraine. The selection of Ukraine as the research case, along with the impact of the EaP on reforms within the above three sectors, was prompted by the following three factors: first, Ukraine is a pioneer country of the EaP, talks on the Association Agreement included; second, the opening of the EU single market to Ukraine via the Association Agreement with the DCFTA has been the core of the EU offer within the EaP; and third, representatives of both the EU and Ukraine have declared many times and at different levels that energy and visa-dialogue could become the breakthrough sectors of EU–Ukraine cooperation.

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