From Declarations to Projects: How Baku and Riga Are Rethinking Strategic Partnership

The Council of Foreign Ministers of the European Union has decided to establish a new civilian European Union Partnership Mission in Armenia (EUPM Armenia), which will operate within the framework of the Common Security and Defence Policy.

A meeting was held in Brussels between the delegations of Azerbaijan and the European Union with the aim of resuming negotiations on a new bilateral agreement and conducting the next round of discussions on the document “Partnership Priorities.” According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Yalchin Rafiyev, while the European Union side was led by Deputy Managing Director of the European External Action Service Audrone Perkauskiene.

On the banks of the Danube, change rarely happens suddenly. It unfolds slowly, almost imperceptibly, until one day it becomes clear that the city—and the country—are already living in a different political reality.

Hungary appears to have entered a new political chapter. The defeat of Viktor Orban, the dominant figure in the country’s politics for more than a decade, would seem to signal a break with the past. Yet the first signals from his successor point to something more complex: a change of leader without a decisive shift in direction.