IN LINE WITH BRUSSELS. ROMANIAN AND BULGARIAN POSITION ON THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS
Journal: EUROPOLITY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE
Year: 2017

The Ukrainian crisis has been a test for the alignment of Romania and Bulgaria with the EU on the background of the Union's new foreign policy instruments as redesigned by the Lisbon Treaty. This paper aims to present the positions of Bulgaria and Romania towards the events of 2013-2015 in Ukraine. Our research target is to identify the driving forces that shaped these positions, to analyse and describe the main foreign policy goals and actions of Bucharest and Sofia regarding the Russian-Ukrain