The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, announced on Monday 18 October that the foreign ministers of the Member States had agreed to work on the ‘fundamentals’ of the Eastern Partnership.
“These fundamentals are: democracy, human rights, Rule of law, anti-corruption”, he explained at the end of the Foreign Affairs Council. Mr Borrell added that the EU also wanted to work on the long-term socio-economic recovery of these countries,...