ABSTRACT
The chapter analyses the impact of events following the November 2013 Vilnius Summit on the ENP Eastern Partnership and its prospects. The European neighbourhood policy (ENP) has been adjusted to take into account the difficulties which have arisen and the changed circumstances. The European Commission's 2013 ENP progress report points out that insufficient progress was made on the key recommendations on the freedom of association, expression and assembly, a free press and media, the rule of law and an independent judiciary and the fight against corruption' in most countries. In most post-Soviet countries, there are grievous shortcomings in the treatment of opposition figures, the exercise of fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression, the independence of the judiciary and other core democratic values and practices. The European Commission's Progress Report on Ukraine from 2013 remarks that confidence in Ukraine's judiciary was undermined by trials which indicated a selective use of justice vis--vis leaders of the opposition.
