Eu’s Enlargement Towards the Eastern Partnership. The Integration of Ukraine in the Midst of the Crisis Strategy

European Union and its neighbors and to strengthen the prosperity, stability, and security of them all.The 2004 enlargement to 25 states expanded the place occupied by the EU in Europe's international relations, with membership now comprising most European nation-states.The ENP is a bilateral policy between the European Union and partner countries.Under the ENP, the European Union offers its neighbors a privileged relationship based on a mutual commitment to shared values including democracy and human rights, rule of law, good governance, market economy principles and sustainable development.The level of ambition of the relationship depends on the extent to which the partner states share these values.In addition, the ENP includes political association, deeper economic integration, and increased mobility (Whitman and Wolff, 2010, pp.3-5).In concrete terms, the actions within the ENP are aimed at framing all three pillars of the EU and promoting strategic security objectives.After spending the first five years working in the ENP format to build relations with very different neighbors like Tunisia and Ukraine, the EU made the logical decision to start viewing its neighborhood through the lens of dividing it into different groups.Thus, currently, within the ENP, we distinguish four types of actions carried out by the EU:1. Cooperation with all neighboring countries.In addition to bilateral and regional cooperation programs, neighborhood-wide cooperation programs have been created, as it is believed that these can be managed more effectively at the interregional level.2. Cooperation with neighboring EU countries.Cross-border cooperation aims at sustainable development along the EU's external borders to enhance the quality of life and solve common problems.3. Southern Neighborhood -cooperation program covering a wide range of key sectors such as good governance and the rule of law, socio-economic development, migration (in the context of migratory crises) and refugee support, climate change, energy, and security.This program involves Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia.4. The Eastern Partnership is a specific dimension of the ENP, which aims to deepen the political and economic relations between the European Union and the six partner states in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus -Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine (Eastern Partnership, 2022).