PRESENT AND FUTURE DIMENSIONS OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY
PRESENT AND FUTURE DIMENSIONS OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY

Summary/Abstract: Regions with a strategic importance, such as the Middle East, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia are supported by UE in the field of security and development. To these regions another one was added, the Black Sea one. This happened also because Romania has become an UE member on January 1, 2007. The European Council has dedicated a special chapter to the Black Sea region in its strategy for Central Asia. The active presence of EU in these regions, especially in the first semester of 2007, when the Union’s presidency belonged to Germany, reveals a development of the role of the organization in establishing, developing and offering a better security to these strategic regions. For the new European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), designed under the German presidency, EU tries to develop cooperation on multiple levels, especially on economic level. Even if the specialists’ analysis foresee many unexplored elements, our opinions lead to the conclusion that the so-called ENP Plus concept includes a more decisive attitude, extremely favourable, but also visionary, at the Eastern border, without excluding the EU southern border, for a better security, stability and a better government beyond its geographical borders.

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