The article dwells upon “Eastern Partnership” (EaP) initiativeand proves that the issue of its reforming has been acquiring considerable relevance under conditions of the aggressive foreign policy of the Russian Federation, contradictions within the European Union, and lack of a unified position on the solution of pressing political and security problems in the European region. The causes serving as prerequisites for the EU Eastern policy reformation are determined and are the following: the European Union has failed to develop a common strategy for relations with Eastern European countries; while implementing the foreign policy with Eastern direction, the EU has been unable to defend the sovereignty and integrity of the EaP recipients; European partners have not yet managed to transform the EaP countries into stable democracies with real democratic institutions. With the structural-functional, systematic and comparative methods applied, vulnerable elements in the EaP structure, given the current geopolitical threats, are identified. Based on analytical works, key priorities of the Eastern Partnership reformation are clarified, namely: strengthening differentiation between associative and non-associative members of the initiative according to the level of implementation of European reforms; securing the EU membership for those countries which have made the greatest progress in implementing European standards and practices; broader application of the “more for more” approach for the EaP participant countries; increased mobility of citizens as a priority of the Eastern Partnership; strengthening the initiative security component, particularly in the energy security sphere. Proposals for the EU Eastern policy development in the security sphere are made. It is concluded that the Eastern Partnership transformation into a new integration security model can take place only after a significant deepening of the differentiated approach to the EaP recipients in the program implementation, as well as when EU member-states become interested in such project changes.
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