European Union, Eastern Europe and Russia: Trilateral Relations in the Period of Ukraine’s Crisis
Journal: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska sectio K – Politologia
Year: 2018

As a result of geopolitical changes which occurred on the verge of the 1980s and 1990s, the map of East-Central Europe underwent signifiant modifiations. The enlargement of the EU encompassing Central European states (especially Poland) contributed to the change of the EU’s attitude towards the post-Soviet space. Up to the time of the enlargement, due to the dominance of the “Russia fist” policy, the EU did not recognize the need for tightening relations with post-Soviet states. After 2004, a gr