Against the background of the Boston Marathon bombing as a violent reminder of the lawlessness throughout much of the Northern Caucasus, Michael Emerson calls in this commentary for a fresh direction in the EU’s negotiations with Russia over visa-free travel. While finding that a ‘visa liberalisation’ regime has a very slim prospect of materialising any time soon, on the other hand, he sees realistic possibilities for fast delivery of a ‘virtual visa free regime’ of the multi-year, multi-entry visa, which would be a real and important achievement for EU-Russian relations
In his comparison of the agreement concluded in the Belarus capital by the leaders of Russia, France...
The EU and the US have been stepping up sanctions against Russia because the Kremlin has broken ever...
[From the introduction]. The first crisis in EU-Russia relations over the ‘Kaliningrad transit’ issu...
In his latest CEPS Commentary, Michael Emerson speculates that circumstances are propitious for a ne...
The overwhelming European attitude, from foreign ministries to the population as a whole, is to hope...
With multiple top-level political meetings scheduled in the near future to review progress of the Eu...
This CEPS Policy Brief analyses the state of EU-Russian relations as seen from the vantage point of ...
Political relations between Russia and both the EU and the US have recently reflected an extended le...
This new Commentary by Michael Emerson and Hrant Kostanyan shows how the pressure exerted by Preside...
Following the convincing election of Petro Poroshenko as Ukraine’s new President, Michael Emerson pu...
In this CEPS Commentary, Senior Research Fellow Michael Emerson advises Russia’s ruling elite that t...
Now that the EU and Ukraine have initialled the texts of an Association Agreement and a Deep and Com...
With Ukraine disintegrating before our eyes, Michael Emerson calls for the EU to convene again the G...
In surveying the traumatic events of the last week in Kyiv, Michael Emerson reports on the profoundl...
This new Commentary by Michael Emerson and Hrant Kostanyan shows how the pressure exerted by Preside...
In his comparison of the agreement concluded in the Belarus capital by the leaders of Russia, France...
The EU and the US have been stepping up sanctions against Russia because the Kremlin has broken ever...
[From the introduction]. The first crisis in EU-Russia relations over the ‘Kaliningrad transit’ issu...
In his latest CEPS Commentary, Michael Emerson speculates that circumstances are propitious for a ne...
The overwhelming European attitude, from foreign ministries to the population as a whole, is to hope...
With multiple top-level political meetings scheduled in the near future to review progress of the Eu...
This CEPS Policy Brief analyses the state of EU-Russian relations as seen from the vantage point of ...
Political relations between Russia and both the EU and the US have recently reflected an extended le...
This new Commentary by Michael Emerson and Hrant Kostanyan shows how the pressure exerted by Preside...
Following the convincing election of Petro Poroshenko as Ukraine’s new President, Michael Emerson pu...
In this CEPS Commentary, Senior Research Fellow Michael Emerson advises Russia’s ruling elite that t...
Now that the EU and Ukraine have initialled the texts of an Association Agreement and a Deep and Com...
With Ukraine disintegrating before our eyes, Michael Emerson calls for the EU to convene again the G...
In surveying the traumatic events of the last week in Kyiv, Michael Emerson reports on the profoundl...
This new Commentary by Michael Emerson and Hrant Kostanyan shows how the pressure exerted by Preside...
In his comparison of the agreement concluded in the Belarus capital by the leaders of Russia, France...
The EU and the US have been stepping up sanctions against Russia because the Kremlin has broken ever...
[From the introduction]. The first crisis in EU-Russia relations over the ‘Kaliningrad transit’ issu...