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The European Neighborhood Policy Review: Elements for a Critical Assessment
The European Neighborhood Policy Review: Elements for a Critical Assessment

Author(s): George Niculescu
Subject(s): Security and defense, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Politics and Identity
Published by: Editura Militară
Keywords: Europe; neighbors; society; security; identity; synergy;

Summary/Abstract: The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has been developed by the European Union (EU) since 2004 to avoid the emergence of new dividing lines between an enlarged EU and its neighbours, and instead strengthen the prosperity, stability and security of all. The ENP framework has been proposed so far to 16 of EU’s closest neighbours covering the Eastern and Southern borders of the Union, from Belarus in the North-East southwards through the Black Sea, and further southwards and westwards through the Eastern and Southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea all the way down the Atlantic coast of Morocco. European prosperity and security are tightly intertwined with those of ENP partners turning the EU neighbourhood into an area with strategic significance.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 104-106
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English