RESOLUTION

on European policies on Eastern partnership

Adopted by the Council in Vienna on 11/07/2011         
Presented by YCEG United Kingdom and YSO GRAALI Georgia

The ‘Euronest’ programme ensures a step by step process of development for countries, enabling them to advance legislation at their own appropriate pace rather than imposing deadlines for the enactment of reforms. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, to varying degrees, are implementing political and social reforms.

We, the European Democrat Students (EDS), the official student organisation of the European People’s Party (EPP),

• Declare our support for the integration process of the South-Eastern European countries.
• Consider that the ‘Euronest’ programme is one of the best available tools to consolidate political and social reforms in the participant countries, and urge the European community to support the further development of the ‘Euronest’ programme.
• Call upon all the relevant European youth organisations to be involved in the monitoring process of the Eastern partnership.
• Believe that it would be beneficial if a ‘Euronest’ country could receive help from their nearest neighbour who is an EU member. This process would ensure a fluid path for the ‘Euronest’ member to eventually enter into direct negotiations for accession to the European Union.
• Urge the European community to fully engage in opposing all forms of obstruction to ‘Euronest’ member’s processes of development. Should a non-EU country obstruct this process directly, the EU should uphold the ‘Euronest’ members’ process of development, adopting all appropriate all non-confrontational measures.