Few expect the Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit to give new a life to the largely stalled programme of the European Unions engagement in its Eastern neighbourhood. The EaP has been reduced largely a discussion of technicalities and bland, aspirational statements. It should be more than that. How the EU works, or does not work, with non-EU countries of Eastern Europe is a deeply political question. It is also a greatly consequential question for the entire Atlantic space, even if it is not seem that way in Western capitals, where the enlargement agenda has been displaced by other, seemingly more pressing, issues.

Yet, the success of the six EaP countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and most importantly Ukraine rem…

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