
Eastern Partnership: Prospects for a European Future
28 June 2023 Security
Martina Rubino 10 min
[Editorial partnership] When the foreign ministers of Poland and Swedish first proposed the idea for the Eastern Partnership in 2008, the response was somewhat muted. A few months later, Russian tanks entered Georgia after fighting between the country’s military and Russian-backed separatists. Five days of war left hundreds dead and around 200,000 people displaced. Russia quickly recognised the contested regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent republics, despite their international status as part of Georgia.
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