This episode is produced by the REUNIR Horizon Europe Project. Host Madalina Dobrescu welcomes Tinatin Akhvlediani, research fellow at the EU foreign policy unit at CEPS and a visiting professor at the College of Europe and the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University. They discuss the socioeconomic threats posed by external actors in the EU's candidate countries in the Eastern neighbourhood, and how the EU can help strengthen socioeconomic resilience in these countries.