Implementation and review of the European Union – Central Asia Strategy: Recommendations for EU action

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This paper, commissioned by the European Parliament, assesses the implementation of the European Union (EU) Strategy for Central Asia and outlines a series of recommendations with a view to increase the EU’s impact in Central Asia. The paper builds on an earlier EUCAM policy brief: Jos Boonstra, ‘Reviewing the EU’s approach to Central Asia’, EUCAM Policy Brief, No. 34, February 2015 but is foremost based on the body of EUCAM research and monitoring of the EU Strategy for Central Asia since 2008. The main conclusions of the paper were presented in the European Parliament at an AFET meeting on 9 November 2015.

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Jos Boonstra

Before joining the Centre for European Security Studies in 2016, Boonstra worked as senior researcher, and later as head of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia programme at FRIDE, a think tank with offices in Madrid and Brussels. He completed MAs in Contemporary History and International Relations at the University of Groningen. His work focuses on Eurasian and transatlantic security issues (in particular EU, NATO and OSCE policies) as well as on development policies and democratisation in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Boonstra is member of several internal research networks and regularly comments on international issues in the media.

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