After Biden's Munich Speech, CEE Faces a Clearer Choice

The  words of US President Joe Biden at the Munich Security Conference last  week suggest the Trump years of transactionalism and cosying up to  autocrats are over. Whether it concerns energy or human rights, the US  is demanding a clearer stance by Central and Eastern Europe vis-à-vis  Russia. This may have an impact on Nord Stream 2 but also the EU's  foreign policy regarding the Eastern Partnership, which has in the  previous decade been anaemic in countering Russian aggression and  supporting democratisation in the Eastern neighbourhood. We discuss  recent opinion and analysis on Visegrad Insight regarding these topics  by Senior Associate Marcin Zaborowski and Fellow Zsuzsanna Szabó,  followed by a discussion on the future of the Eastern Partnership  framework with  Orysia Lutsevych (Chatham House) and Pavel Havlíček (AMO). Biden gears up to take on Russian energy influence: https://visegradinsight.eu/biden-gears-up-russian-energy-influence-poland/ No appeasement from Biden in Munich: https://visegradinsight.eu/no-appeasement-from-biden-in-munich/ This episode is part of the Eastern European Futures (EaP2030)  project supported by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. – Black Sea  Trust. Read our scenarios for the Eastern Partnership region: www.visegradinsight.eu/EaP2030/ #Biden #Russia #energy #Munich #security #EaP2030 #NordStream2