Twenty seven EU's foreign ministers held a summit in the coastal city of Sopot to discuss collaboration with the union’s eastern neighbours as part of the Eastern Partnership programme.

Danuta Isler reports

Launched last May the Eastern Partnership Project (EPP) was one of the key initiatives of the Donald Tusk government aimed at bringing ex-Soviet states - Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus - closer to Europe.

The programs within the EPP include talks on free trade agreement, fight with corruption, strengthening of borders, energy security and visa facilitations. The European Investment Bank has so far allocated about five billion euros for their implementation.

Analysts who have followed its development say its results have so far have been mixed. One the one hand, it shows that this issue matters not only to EU’s eastern flank but to the entire bloc. On the other, however, the EU has not managed to convince its eastern partners that the EPP is an attractive offer for them.