Author: Vitalii Rishko

Vitalii is contributing to TNGO as a Сontent Writer for EU affairs. He holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Vitalii also completed his Master's programme in International Security at the University of Groningen. Apart from contributing to the work of TNGO, Vitalii is also Visiting Researcher at Transatlantic Dialogue Center (Kyiv, Ukraine). His research interests are International Order, Great Power Competition, Transatlantic Security, and European and Euro-Atlantic Integration.

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(Analysis) European Political Community: The French Approach Towards Greater Europe

By Vitalii Rishko February 2, 2023 February 4, 2023 0

Increasing security threats and a lack of coordination between European states proved the need to establish a new platform to discuss strategic issues and maintain high-level dialogue between heads of states. It gave a new impetus to the old ideas of Great Europe that were developed in France, namely by Francois Mitterand. Emmanuel Macron has brought this idea back by proposing a European Political Community, which has faced a lot of criticism already. Even so, it can have some substantial benefits for European politics and contribute to shaping the European security order.

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(Analysis) EU Candidate Status for Ukraine and Moldova: Political Signal or Geostrategic Move?

By Vitalii Rishko November 29, 2022 November 29, 2022 0

The article seeks to outline the key factors that impacted the EU’s decision to grant candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova. It touches on the issues of EU-Russia competition in the shared neighborhood and relations between the EU and the Associated Trio countries.