TOWARDS STRONGER NORMATIVE POWER: THE NATURE OF SHIFT IN EU FOREIGN POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CRISIS IN UKRAINE
Journal: European Integration Studies
Year: 2015

The crisis in Ukraine of 2014 produced considerable change in the EU international environment, which not only tested its capabilities to react very quickly and adequately but also actually destroyed previous subtle balance of its Member States in relations with Russia. The EU Member States were not able to continue to maintain in these relations the "disunity" pattern, which was successfully described in the European Council on Foreign Relations study "A Power Audit of EU – Russia Relations" al