EURINT 2020 | EU and its neighbourhood: enhancing EU actorness in the eastern borderlands 15-17 Noiembrie 2020

EURINT 2020 | EU and its neighbourhood: enhancing EU actorness in the eastern borderlands will, first, seek to bring additional insights into the way the EU policies are being framed and adapted in order to hamper the imbalances at the level of the borderlands between the EU and non-EU states in Eastern Europe. Second, it will assess the implication of the neighbourhood instruments in the borderland regions and try to provide answers about level of attractiveness the EU’s specific policies and instruments. Since the EU’s essential values such as good governance, democracy, economic prosperity and security have been constantly under pressure in the past years in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU, it is interesting to gauge whether the EU can be still regarded as a source of political and economic support for the countries in the region. Last but not least, the conference will offer the possibility to discuss ways of improving the effectiveness of the neighbourhood instruments in relation to its Eastern Partnership countries and debate whether the current design of these instruments is still suitable for a significantly altered region marked by the current geopolitical tensions between the Euro-Atlantic community and Russia. EURINT 2020 will have a strong academic interdisciplinary character (political, economic, social, etc.) when assessing the EU’s policies in the region (such as, the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership) and, more specifically, the impact of the neighbourhood instruments (i.e. the European Neighbouring Instrument, Cross-Border- Cooperation, Euroregions, bilateral state partnerships, etc.). The Centre for European Studies in cooperation with European Institute of Romania and Jean Monnet European Documentation Centre organizes an international academic event which addresses those who show a genuine interest in enhancing their research skills in European studies and in contributing to developing a transnational network of contacts and cooperation. During the two-day conference, an exciting academic programme, featuring renowned international experts and keynote lectures, will be offered to our participants: PhD candidates, post-doc fellows, researchers, civil society activists, NGO representatives, consultants, policy advocates and many more.