By Denis Cenusa in Giessen The integration of the Eastern Partnership candidates, led by Ukraine, represents a geopolitical and security objective, not just a mechanical reasoning of the EU’s enlargement policy. This approach may point to some incipient and sectoral differences, of conceptual and practical nature, in the way the EU applies the logic of accession to the Western Balkan candidate countries and those of the Eastern Partnership. The EU strategy for enlargement does not establish a formal geographical division between the Eastern Partnership and the candidates from the Western Balka…