In March 2015, the EU launched a review process of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). In the interest of supporting this urgently needed review, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung requested six position papers from experts in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine � the countries of the EU�s Eastern Partnership (EaP).The Perspective reveals the Eastern Partnership�s catch-22: The EU is regarded as a major � if not the sole � hope for bringing about sustainable democratic and economic change in EaP countries. However, there are considerable discrepancies between expectations about the EU�s role within the cooperation and its financial possibilities, as well as its willingness to commit.