The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood: building a crucial relationship
The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood: building a crucial relationship

Summary/Abstract: The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a fundamental instrument for the relations with the Southern Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. Since its inception în 2004, the ENP has promoted a variety of important initiatives, particularly on the trade and economic front, which have allowed the EU and its neighbours to develop stronger relationships în virtually all policy fields, from energy to education, from transport to research. The ENP is guided by the principles of differentiation and conditionality and universal values as human rights, democracy and the rule of law. This paper will focus on the implementation of the ENP, paying a special attention to the changes of the new European Neighbourhood Policy as a consequence of several factors such as the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty or the changes în the Southern Mediterranean. în this sense, our main interest will be the strengthening of the bilateral and multilateral cooperation with the Eastern Neighbourhood through the ENP and the Eastern Partnership Summit în Warsaw (29-30 September 2011) that calls for closer political association and deeper economic integration with the EU.

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