The article discusses the theoretical and empirical challenges of assessing performance of the EU’s Eastern Partnership policy with a special focus on the future of the policy amidst Russia’s war against Ukraine. Based on the contributions to the respective Special Issue the concluding article discusses contemporary developments at the crossroads between EU Studies and the studies of performance, the multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to performance assessment in European Studies, as well as state-of-the-art of the EU’s performance in six Eastern Partnership countries. It also dedicates much attention to the implications the policy’s performance so far and available evidence about it will have for the reinvention of the Eastern Partnership in the new geopolitical constellations, shaped by Russia’s war against Ukraine and the EU’s response thereto.

本文讨论了评估欧盟东部伙伴关系政策绩效的理论和实证挑战，特别关注俄罗斯对乌克兰战争中该政策的未来。基于对相应特刊的贡献，结论文章讨论了欧盟研究和绩效研究之间十字路口的当代发展、欧洲研究中绩效评估的多学科和跨学科方法以及最先进的方法欧盟在六个东部伙伴关系国家中的表现。它还非常关注该政策迄今为止的表现以及现有证据对于在新的地缘政治格局中重塑东部伙伴关系的影响，