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Study on the Implementation of the EU-Central Asia Strategy

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The 2019 EU Central Asia Strategy provides a broad strategic framework for cooper­ation with the five states in the region. With regard to the very young Central Asian population, the IEP study analyses the feasi­bility of a new youth policy dimension in the EU’s relations with Central Asia. The focus is on how the EU can contribute to providing high prospects for the youth population of Central Asia.

The study, prepared by IEP on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office, analyses the challenges and poten­tials of a youth policy dimension in EU-Central Asia relations. A deepening of relations in youth policy is beneficial for both sides and does not directly challenge Chinese or Russian ambitions in the region. Furthermore, a youth policy dimension of the EU’s Central Asia policy offers the oppor­tunity to improve the EU’s visibility in the region. To seize this oppor­tunity, IEP makes concrete policy recom­men­da­tions and proposes an intra-European division of labour to create the new youth policy dimension in EU-Central Asia relations.

A compre­hensive analysis of the challenges and poten­tials is presented in the IEP Research Paper 1/2021 “Young Central Asia. Recom­men­da­tions to the German Government for the Imple­men­tation of the EU-Central Asia Strategy”. A compre­hensive package of priority measures to create a youth policy dimension in EU-Central Asia relations is proposed in the IEP Policy Paper on Eastern Europe and Central Asia 1/2021 “A Youth Policy Dimension of EU-Central Asia Relations. Prior­ities for the Imple­men­tation of the EU-Central Asia Strategy in the Area of Youth Policy”. The recom­men­da­tions and findings were discussed in four online workshops with academics, government and civil society repre­sen­ta­tives from Europe and Central Asia.


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