ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the EU Neighbourhood East Parliamentary Assembly (EuroNest), an inter-parliamentary forum consisting of representatives from the European Parliament (EP) and from all Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries except Belarus, aiming at political and economic association between the EU and the EaP. More specifically, it analyses the extent to which the EP manages to socialize the national parliaments of the EaP. After introducing the theoretical framework, the analysis outlines the structure and working methods of EuroNest, clarifies the absence of Belarus in the framework, and examines the results of the first two plenary sessions. The chapter concludes that, although the establishment of EuroNest as such provides a framework to advance the EP’s goals of transmitting its norms and values to the Eastern neighbouring countries, in practice socialization has taken place only to a limited extent thus far.
