In many ways, the EU and its neighbours are deeply interdependent. What is happening in the neighbourhood affects a quite a few core aspects of the European project: from vague things such as EU solidarity and mutual (dis)trust between EU member  states, to more palpable things such as EU’s energy security, the single market, climate change goals, and needless to say, the EU-Russia partnership. Many aspects of intra-EU politics such as Lithuanian-German relations, Polish attitudes to climate change goals, Finnish foreign policy or the fact that Cyprus is a huge source of foreign investments cannot be understood without understanding the eastern neighbourhood. Therefore, this will be a blog about the EU as a project, as much as about its neighbours.