CIAO DATE: 05/04

The South Caucasus: a challenge for the EU

Abstract

Why a paper on the Caucasus? After all, the region does not border directly onto the European Union, it does not even form part of the 'new neighbourhood' that the commission sees as the main consequence of the forthcoming enlargement, and none of the countries that make up the region is a candidate for EU membership. Given the accumulation of both internal and external issues to be tackled by the union in the coming months - from the IGC to the various international crises in the greater Middle East to enlargement - the South Caucasus as one of the Union's security concerns might seem to be of only marginal interest.

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