Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Making Association Work: Achievements in and obstacles to reforms in energy, transport and environment<\/a> The Association Agreements (AA) concluded between the EU and the three Eastern Partnership countries \u2014 namely Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia \u2014 are amongst the most comprehensive and detailed agreements the EU has concluded with any third country. Crucially, they are very ambitious in terms of law harmonization. The three associated countries have committed themselves to adopting a substantial part of the EU\u2019s rules \u2013 the so-called acquis communautaire. Title:\u00a0Making Association Work: Achievements in and obstacles to reforms in energy, transport and environmentAuthors:\u00a0Laure Delcour and Klaudijus ManiokasRelease date:\u00a0March 2019 The Association Agreements (AA) concluded between the EU and the three Eastern Partnership countries \u2014 namely Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia \u2014 are amongst the most comprehensive and detailed agreements the EU has concluded with any…Continue reading Release of policy brief dedicated to reforms in energy, transport and environment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Authors:<\/strong>\u00a0Laure Delcour and Klaudijus Maniokas
Release date:<\/strong>\u00a0March 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
However, the scope and depth of reforms required from the associated countries is at odds with their current level of socio-economic development. While the EU expects the AA to serve as a blueprint for the modernization of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, the relevance of its acquis to their needs is to a large extent questionable.
This policy brief discusses the key issues faced by the partner countries in conducting domestic change (defined here as transposition and implementation of EU rules) in response to the AAs in the energy, environment and transport sectors. With the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTAs) and visa liberalization, the EU offers clear rewards in exchange for massive reforms (in the form of easier market access and people mobility, respectively). In contrast to trade and mobility, such tangible rewards are largely absent in the energy, transport and environment sectors. Therefore, we ask whether the EU\u2019s promise of modernization through the acquis has proven effective to entice the three associated countries into wide-ranging policy change in these sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"