The work programmes of the four Eastern Partnership (EaP) multilateral thematic platforms for 2009-2011 are now available on the European Commission website.

The European Union has loudly announced a new project of regional integration under its auspeces. The drafters of the project say that this informal association would include six republics of the former USSR: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Who would benefit from the Eastern Partnership, the partner states or the Old Europe — the long run will show. Is the program a pro-Atlantic geopolitical project or only a tool for monitoring of the transit of energy resources supplied to the EU? The views of experts and politicians in this regard are still diametrically opposite.