ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ Постсоветское пространство: украинский кризис, евразийская интеграция, энергетика и безопасность УКРАИНСКИЙ КРИЗИС THE WEIMAR TRIANGLE AND THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS Jean-Christophe Romer Institut d’йtudes politiques de Strasbourg Avenue de la Forкt-Noire 47, 67082, Strasbourg, France The article analyzes the activity of Weimar Triangle (Germany, France, Poland) during Ukrainian crisis (2013—2014) as an efficient, but still largely underestimated negotiation force of the European Union. <...> The evolution of role of Weimar Triangle in post-bipolar era is indicated, as well as the role of this specific structure during Ukrainian crisis. <...> Key words: Ukrainian crisis, Weimar Triangle, diplomacy, The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), Eastern Partnership (EP), European neighbourhood policy (ENP), Poland, Germany, France, European Union. <...> It is why it is necessary to present this specific structure of the post-bipolar era, since its importance as well as its possibilities have long been underestimated not only by most European countries but also by the three countries which are part of it. <...> For instance the first time a French daily newspaper mentioned the Triangle was in 1998, i.e. seven years after it has been created, on the occasion of the first summit of the Triangle at the level of the heads of state and government! <...> True, the new Commission has also to take into account the necessity for the EU to have a real diplomacy and, even more, an identified foreign policy. <...> Of course, the 7 Вестник РУДН, серия Международные отношения, 2014, № 4 question then was not to integrate the former Eastern European countries in the main institutional European structures such as EU or NATO. <...> It is why those countries first had to think how to organize themselves into new and specific structures. <...> Gianni de Michelis, the foreign minister, proposed the extension of the AlpAdria initiative — which then included Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria — to Czechoslovakia then to Poland. <...> According to the words of the Italian minister, the aim of this extension, was “to avoid the reconstitution of a new Carolingian Empire in Europe”. <...> At last, it can be mentioned the Council of the Baltic states created in March 1992 and whose aim was to help the newly <...>