EU Assistance to Central Asia: Back to the Drawing Board?
European Union (EU) assistance in general and to Central Asia in particular is a complicated, many sided and fairly opaque...
Society
The Growing Illiteracy in Central Asia: A Challenge for the EU
The Central Asian states have declared their interest in engaging in international cooperation in the higher education sector, but less...
Studying Europe in Central Asia: The Case of Kyrgyzstan
As the European Union sets out an ambitious agenda in its Central Asian strategy, its support for education may be...
Beyond Border Management Programme for Central Asia (BOMCA)
Introduction In 2002, Romano Prodi, then President of the European Commission, proudly announced a plan to create a unified border...
The EU Strategy for Central Asia says ‘security’. Does this include Security Sector Reform?
Introduction Central Asia faces a broad range of security challenges.(1) Due to the region’s position at the crossroads between Russia,...
Getting to know each other: the EU and civil society in Central Asia
Forging links between European civil society organisations and their counterparts in Central Asia is no easy task. Delivering on EU...
Human Rights in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan: How realistic is to expect further results after an EU open debate with civil society?
The EU-Kazakhstan and EUTajikistan civil society seminars on the themes of the judiciary and detention organised at the end of...
Kazakhstan’s grip on virtual reality
As the world considers how best to regulate the ‘virtual reality’ of online information exchange and communication, Kazakhstan has taken...
The Kyrgyz Republic Presidential Elections: No surprises but few opportunities for democratisation
As expected, Kurmanbek Bakiev won the presidential election held on July 23rd in Kyrgyzstan by a huge margin. The current...
The EU’s Rule of Law Initiative in Central Asia
Introduction The EU’s Rule of Law Initiative is one of three EU regional projects in Central Asia,1 first set out...
The EU’s approach to the development of mass media in Central Asia
Introduction In spite of positive developments in terms of human rights, the rule of law and democratisation in Central Asia...
The EU Strategy for Central Asia @ One Year
On the 20th of July 2007, the Council of the European Union adopted “The EU and Central Asia: Strategy for...