Külügyi Szemle - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet folyóirata - 2010 (9. évfolyam)
2010 / 1. szám - MAGYARORSZÁG ÉS KELET-KÖZÉP-EURÓPA - Csejtei István: Keleti Partnerség: a magyar uniós elnökség egyik prioritása
Csejtei István 10 „ENPI Eastern Regional Programme. Strategy Paper, 2007-2013". European Commission, http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/country/enpi_eastern_rsp_en.pdf . 11 „ENPI Eastern Regional Indicative Programme, 2007-2010". European Commission, http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/country/enpi_eastem_rip_en.pdf . 12 „ENP1 Interregional Programme, Strategy Paper 2007-2013 and Indicative Programme 2007-2010". European Commission, http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/country/enpi_interregional_en.pdf . 13 Cornelius Ochmann: „EU Eastern Partnerships: Fine but what about Russia?" Spotlight Europe, No. 6. (2009). 14 „ENPI Regional Strategy Paper (2007-2013) and Regional Indicative Programme (2007-2010) for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership". European Commission, http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/country/enpi_euromed_rsp_en.pdf . 15 Uo. 16 „Keleti Partnerség" ("Oostelijk Partnerschap", rövid elemzés), 11. oldal, 2009. február, 15. szám, a „Nemzetközi Kapcsolatok Tanácsadó Testületé", Hollandia, Hága. 17 Uo. Résumé Eastern Partnership: One of the Priorities of Hungary's EU Presidency The Eastern Partnership is a special, eastern dimension of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). Its major goal is the promotion of reforms in six partner countries (Ukraine, the Moldovan Republic, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan), as well as facilitating cooperation among the partner states. The main difference between the two neighborhood policies, i.e., the Eastern Partnership (EP) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UM) is that three countries of the East European 'six' have common borders with EU member states, while the Southern Mediterranean countries are not only separated from the EU by the Mediterranean Sea, but also by their social and economic structures which are quite difficult to reform. An added significance of the EP is the fact that its geographic-economic background is provided by Russia, which - in turn - is practically the third dimension of the EU's neighborhood efforts. Hungary is interested in a relatively balanced development of the eastern and southern neighborhood policies, therefore it will be able to make the EP one of the priorities of its EU presidency in the first half of 2011. The significant differences between the intensity of the eastern and southern neighborhood policies, in which the latter one benefits more, is worth balancing. There would be a need for an EU-Ukraine summit in Budapest during the Hungarian EU-presidency, a new eastern partnership program should be drafted, and it would also be desirabke to create an EP Secretariat (similarly to the one for the UM). The most important new element of the EP would be to identify ambitious gaols for the six partner countries in the fields of political partnership with the EU, complete economic integration, and the creation of a visa-free area with the EU. 38 Külügyi Szemle
