APD Max Weber Fellows 2009 public lecture series
Date: Monday 27 April 2009
Time: 5-6pm
Venue: L1.15, New Academic Building
Speaker: Ekaterina Mouliarova
Taking into account that the Russian Federation after the EU Enlargement has become its neighbour, considering political, economical and geographical weight of Russia as well as that of the former countries of the Soviet Union, the EU relations with those countries has become even more important for the stability in the region.
The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the Russian Federation and the European Communities sighed in June 1994 and entered into force on the 1st of December 1997 is at present the most important instrument of their mutual relations. The European Union considering Russian as one of the main partners has developed the relationship with it through a wide variety of instruments and programmes.
The successful integration of non-EU countries into the Single Market must ensure the conformity of their national economic and legal systems to the essential requirements of the EU criteria and adaptation to the developing EU governance. At the same time the political history and the peculiarities of legal reforms and then socio-political liberalisation processes in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have had a serious impact on the relationship between those countries and EU-members. Thus the EU neighbourhood policy should be build taking into account the aforementioned specifics. In the post-communist European accession states as well as in other countries which may not want to join the EU the democratisation process and adaptation of general constitutional standards and norms is heavily influenced by their political past which means that their involvement in the European constitutional process cannot be completely unified.
The lecture describes the developing legal and institutional framework of the EU- Russian relationship, deals with specifics of their cooperation nowadays and analyses the perspective of the strategic partnership.
Ekaterina Mouliarova is a Max Weber fellow from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence.
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