Ukraine - Romania: a sustained deadlock. OSW Commentary No. 68, 2011-12-29
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2011

The decision passed by the International Court of Justice in The Hague in February 2009, which finally determined the status of the Snake Island and the delimitation of the borders of Ukraine’s and Romania’s exclusive economic zones on the Black Sea’s continental shelf removed the major dispute from the agenda of relations between the two countries but it failed to reduce their mutual distrust. The sources of this distrust include the difficult history of Ukrainian-Romanian relations in the 20th