Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego

Publications

Friendly EU Border. Monitoring of New EU Border and European Visa Policy

Europe Divided. Then and Now (December 2009) - publication consists of two, alternating but complementary parts: THEN and NOW. Both of then show problems of Europeans with travelling in different time and regions of the continent. Through the interviews with 15 people from the Visgerad countries we show what it was like for people from those states to travel to Western Europe before 1989 or just after, and what the significance of those travels was at that time. We also present portraits of a few EU visa applicants met at the EU consulates in 2008. The publication was co-financed by the International Visegrad Fund. [PDF 2,5 MB]
What to do with visas for the Eastern Europeans? Recommendations from the perspective of Visegrad countries (June 2009) - recommendations for visa policies of the Visegrad countries were developed in the course of cooperation of 4 institutions: Association for International Affairs (Czech Republic), Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Stefan Batory Foundation and Hungarian Europe Society. [PDF 659 KB]
Relative openness. Polish visa policy towards Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine (May 2009) - presentation of the major trends in Polish visa policy during the past few years, followed by the analisis of data concerning the number of visas issued before and after Poland joined the Schengen zone. [PDF 555 KB]

Two publications above were published in the framework of Visa Policy Towards Eastern Neighbors. Recommendations from the perspective of Visegrad Countries project, co-finaced by the Visegrad Fund.

Changes in Visa Policies of the EU Member States. New Monitoring Report (May 2009) - Report presenting the results of a monitoring survey carried out in 2008 with regard to visa policies of selected EU Member States as applied to the nationals of Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine (the monitoring was based on the same methodology as the one conducted by the Batory Foundation in 2005) [PDF 204 KB]
Gateways to Europe – a friendly border? (January 2009) - Analysis developing the conclusions and recommendations enclosed in the „Gateways to Europe. Checkpoints on the EU External Land Border” report (2008) [PDF 219 KB]
What can be changed regarding visas? Visa policy upon Poland’s accession to the Schengen Zone (June 2008). Analysis of the impact which last changes had on the situation of Eastern neighbors of Poland as well as necessary actions concerning Polish visa policy [PDF 157 KB]
Gateways to Europe. Checkpoints on the EU External Land Border (2008). The report presents the results of a monitoring project of external EU land border crossing points, carried out in 2007 in Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Romania [PDF 1661 KB]
How to avoid an iron curtain between the EU and Belarus. A petition to lower the price of visas from €60 to €35 for Belarusian citizens signed by former presidents – Václav Havel, Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Lech Wałęsa. [PDF 79 KB]
Neighbours and Visas. Recommendations for a Friendly European Union Visa Policy (2006) [PDF 294 KB]
Visa Policies of the European Union Member States — Monitoring Report (2006). The Report is based on the extensive survey of those applying for visas in the Consulates of certain EU Member States in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and the Ukraine. The Report presents a comparative review of visa policies followed by certain Schengen States as well as non-Schengen States that are soon to join the group of the former (Latvia, the Czech Republic and Poland) [PDF 1,7 MB]
Following Annexes are available in electronic version only:
Annex IV [PDF 55 KB]
Annex V [PDF 135 KB]
Annex VI [PDF 135 KB]
Annex VII [PDF 89 KB]
Monitoring of the Polish Visa Policy — Policy Paper (2004). The Paper presents findings from the survey of the procedures followed by Polish Consulates in Belarus, Russia, and the Ukraine. Furthermore, it presents the recommendations concerning the changes needed [PDF 577 KB]
Monitoring of the Polish Visa Policy — Report (2004). The Report, drawn up by experts from the Stefan Batory Foundation, Collegium Civitas, and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, presents findings from the survey that was conducted following the introduction of the visa regime for nationals of Belarus, Russia, and the Ukraine. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the visa procedures involved [PDF 907 KB]

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More than Neighbors

Helping foreigners, Aleksandra Chrzanowska, Grzegorz Wilga, Wojciech Wciseł, Michał Pachocki (November 2008) - The brief presents experience of Polish third sector organisations dealing with migrants and refugees. The publication was prepared in the framework of the Ukraine on the Way to the EU project, in assistance of the Legal Intervention Association (Warsaw) and the Regional Volunteer Service Center in Lublin. The publication is available in Ukrainian. [PDF 1,07 MB]
The Project was co-financed in 2008 by Polish Aid programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. The publication presents exclusively the views of the authors and cannot be identified with the official position of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Eastern Partnership - Commentary (October 2008) - the publication is a commentary to the Eastern Partnership, proposed in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy. [PDF 72 KB]
Five theses on European Neighbourhood Policy (September 2008) - the policy brief describes and provides an estimate of the activities held within the frames of the European Neighborhood Policy towards the EU partner states [PDF 102 KB]
Energy Game by Grzegorz Gromadzki and Wojciech Konończuk, Stefan Batory Foundation (August 2007). The publication includes analysis of Russian and EU energy policies towards three post-Soviet countries: Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine as well as recommendations concerning future EU activity in these countries [PDF 471 KB]
Belarus: Neither Europe, nor Russia. Opinions of Belarusian Elites, editors: Valer Bulhakau, Agnieszka Komorowska (May 2007). The book features interviews with 30 Belarusian politicians, journalists, third sector activists, cultural figures and artists carried out in Minsk in spring 2006. The interviewees, representing both the opposition and the circles loyal to Lukashenka regime, were asked nine questions concerning Belarusian identity, and Belarus’ relationship with Russia and the European Union. The book presents diverse and often conflicting opinions [PDF 1016 KB]
Belarusian version: http://arche.bymedia.net/2007-knihi/zmiest01.htm
Russian version:http://arche.bymedia.net/2007-knihi/zmiest01_ru.htm
Belarusian-Russian Energy Conflict: the Game Is Not Over, Wojciech Konończuk (January 2007) [PDF 120 KB]

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Russia in Europe

Putin's Empire (March 2007) [PDF 2 MB]

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The Enlarged EU and Ukraine: New Relations

Questionable Achievement: EC-Ukraine Visa Facilitation Agreement, Jakub Boratyński, Grzegorz Gromadzki, Oleksandr Sushko, Anita Szymborska (November 2006) [PDF 1 MB]
Between contentment and disillusionment. EU-Ukraine relations a year after the Orange Revolution, Grzegorz Gromadzki, Oleksandr Sushko (December 2005) [PDF 183 KB]
How to make a difference? EU-Ukrainian negotiations on facilitation of visa regime, Jakub Boratyński, Gregorz Gromadzki, Oleksandr Sushko (2005) [PDF 467 KB]
Will the Orange Revolution bear fruit?, Grzegorz Gromadzki, Oleksandr Sushko, Marius Vahl, Kataryna Wolczuk, Roman Wolczuk (2005) [PDF 381 KB]
Ukraine and the EU after the Orange Revolution, Grzegorz Gromadzki, Oleksandr Sushko, Marius Vahl, Kataryna Wolczuk, Roman Wolczuk (2004) [PDF 74 KB]
Ukraine at the Crossroads. The Presidential Elections (2004) [PDF 137 KB]
More than Neighbours. The Enlarged European Union and Ukraine - New Relations. Final Report (2004) [PDF 1 033 KB]
More than Neighbours. The Enlarged European Union and Ukraine – New Relations. Policy Paper (2004) [PDF 336 KB]
European Integration of Ukraine. As Viewed by Top Ukrainian Politicians, Businessmen and Society Leaders (2004) [PDF 1 098 KB]
More than a Neighbour - proposals for the EU's future policy towards Ukraine, Grzegorz Gromadzki, Olexandr Sushko, Marius Vahl, Kataryna Wolczuk [PDF 228 KB]
Poles and Ukrainians, Poland and Ukraine. The Paradoxes of Neighbourly Relations, Joanna Konieczna [PDF 481 KB]

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European Choice for Belarus

Belarus after the “election”. What future for Lukashenka regime? (September 2006) Grzegorz Gromadzki, Wojciech Konończuk, Luboš Veselý [PDF 199 KB]
After the presidential election in Belarus - materials from the conference organized by Stefan Batory Foundation in March 2006 [PDF 254 KB]
Belarus before and after 19 March - Possible Scenarios (March 2006) Jakub Boratyński, Grzegorz Gromadzki, Wojciech Konończuk. Publication presents the possible scenarios of situation development in Belarus before and after the presidential elecion and analyses the regime and opposition activities [PDF 120 KB]
Active and Cohesive. Tomorrow’s EU Policy towards Belarus (January 2006) Grzegorz Gromadzki, Luboš Veselý. Publication analyses the situation in and around Belarus on the eve of presidential elections in March 2006 and proposes a new EU strategy towards Belarus. The paper was worked out along with the Association for International Affairs in Prague [PDF 205 KB]
Towards Unity. Belarusian Opposition Before the Presidential Election 2006 (December 2005), Wojciech Konończuk [PDF 107 KB]
Effective Policy towards Belarus. A Challenge for the Enlarged EU (2005) Grzegorz Gromadzki, Vitalij Silitski, Luboš Veselý. The policy brief analyzes the recent events in Belarus and gives the recommendations and proposals for the EU policy towards this country. The paper was worked out along with the Association for International Affairs in Prague [PDF 100 KB]
Belarus. Catching up with Europe (2004) [ PDF 536 KB]
Belarus: Reform Scenarios (2003) - contains the findings of Belarusian and foreign experts from a variety of fields who took part in the Stefan Batory Foundation's European Choice for Belarus project. The experts analysed political, economic, social and educational reform in Belarus from a democratic and European perspective) [PDF 2 MB]
The Forgotten Neighbour - Belarus in the Context of EU Eastern Enlargement, Anna Naumczuk, Eugeniusz Mironowicz, Grzegorz Gromadzki, Paweł Kazanecki (September 2001) [PDF 285 KB]
A Coherent EU Strategy for Belarus – recommendations

See publications in Polish, Belarusian and Russian

Other publications

Report from the conference New European Borders and Security Cooperation: Promoting Trust in an Enlarged European Union, organized by the Stefan Batory Foundation, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Sitra Foundation, Brussels, July 6-7th, 2001 [PDF 73kB]
Social Diplomacy. The Case of Poland. International activity of Polish NGOs and their dialogue with government (ed. Grażyna Czubek, 2002) [PDF 361 KB]
Overview of the Polish Publications about the New Eastern Dimension of the EU - bibliography prepared for the international conference The EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Warsaw, February 20-21, 2003.
New Geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe. Between European Union and United States - the volume features the proceedings of the conference organized by the Stefan Batory Foundation in co-operation with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs of the Foundation for Science and Policy, SWP, Berlin, and European Studies Centre at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, and held in Warsaw on 7-8 May 2004. The publication brings the record of speeches delivered inter alia by EU Commissioner Danuta Hübner and Polish Secretary of State Adam D. Rotfeld, Christopher Bertram, David P.Calleo, Robert Cooper, Timothy Garton-Ash, Bronisław Geremek, Heather Grabbe, Pierre Hassner, Ken Jowitt, Ivan Krastev, Marcin Król, Dominique Moisi, Jacques Rupnik, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Aleksander Smolar, Timothy Snyder, and a special lecture by the former US Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger [PDF 2 MB]

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