Understanding the EU’s Association Agreements
and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas
with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
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Understanding the Association Agreements (AAs) and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTAs) between the European Union and Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova’ (3 DCFTAs) is a three-year project funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). The project is led by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and conducted in partnership with the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER) in Kyiv, Expert-Grup in Chisinau and Reformatics in Tbilisi.
This three-year project, which started in April 2015, aims at clarifying the legal, political and economic implications of three Association Agreements and DCFTAs. The agreements are long and technical legal texts, which cannot be ‘read like a book’. While some simplified information documents are being produced by the EU, the project has two major objectives: The first objective is to produce a comprehensive while compact Handbook for each of the three country cases.
