A12-221-2: Future of the Eastern Partnership: a new European strategy for the East

Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee to Ukraine and Moldova, and to maintain such status for Georgia only if democratic progress resumes;[Space]

19. Demands the systematic inclusion of civil society organisations as co-decision-making actors in the EU accession processes of Eastern Partnership countries, including their formal participation in national coordination mechanisms, screening processes, and reform monitoring, in order to ensure democratic legitimacy, transparency, and long-term societal ownership of EU integration;