Resumen de A New Start for the EU Central Asia Policy in 2021? Current State, Developments and Perspectives for the Revision of the EU Central Asia Strategy

Katrin Böttger, Julian Plottka

• In 2017, the Council of the EU invited the European Commission and the High Representative to draft a new strategy for the Union’s relations with Central Asia. As a contribution to the discussion on the new strategy, this paper recaps the development of the EU’s strategic objectives in its Central Asia policy, summarises the strategy review of 2015 and recommends focusing on three aspects of the new strategy. (1) It needs to find a balance between a bilateral and regional approach. (2) It needs to adapt the EU’s Central Asia policy to the “principled pragmatism.” (3) It needs to reduce the number of key priorities