Europe Report N°173 (CRISIS GROUP, 20/03/06):

The unresolved conflicts in the South Caucasus could ignite into full-fledged wars in Europe’s neighbourhood, so to guarantee its own security, the EU must become more engaged in resolving them. Thus far, others have taken the lead in promoting conflict settlement in the region, but over a decade of negotiations led by the UN in Abkhazia and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia have failed to produce peace. With its reputation as an “honest broker”, the EU has a greater role to play, and especially since the 2004 enlargement brought the South Caucasus closer, it has strong incentive to get involved. This is a challenge Brussels has, however, only begun to address.

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