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Article
The European Neighborhood Policy as a Key Framework for Stability and Economic Cooperation
Author(s)
Redouane Mouhoub, Abdelmalek Debbihi
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DOI:10.17265/1537-1514/2017.03.004
Affiliation(s)
Bucharest University of Economic Studies ASE, Bucharest, Romania
ABSTRACT
This
article will discuss the manner in which the EU applies the European
Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) by making a comparison between Southern Mediterranean
and eastern European neighbouring countries. The ENP has been launched in 2003
and implemented in 2004 by the European Union (EU) to create an area of
prosperity, stability, security and economic cooperation with neighbouring
countries, with the objective of avoiding the emergence of new dividing lines
between the enlarged EU and its neighbours. The way in which this policy has
developed and the current challenges and threats faced by the EU and
neighbouring countries after more than 10 years of its launch lead us to seek
if this policy is implemented in the same way in different neighbouring
countries and why it has not achieved its strategic objectives. The case study
methodology focusing on Ukraine with comparison made with other countries of
the neighbour especially Southern Mediterranean countries is used to argue
findings related to the shortcomings in the implementation of the ENP. The
analysis of the situation reveals that this policy is highly dominated by the
EU’s member countries in different neighbouring regions and by geo-strategic
raisons. Decision-making process in EU institutions requires agreement of all
EU countries for the decisions taken in the field of foreign policy and
security. The consensus reached by EU countries to face together with the
influence of Russia in eastern European countries, especially in Ukraine, gives
EU institutions more prerogatives to manage the Ukrainian crisis and to have a
very active diplomacy but with counterproductive results. However, the absence
of geo-strategic competition in the Mediterranean region makes ENP more passive
and the EU diplomacy overshadowed by the diplomacy of member countries facing
conflicts erupted in that region.
KEYWORDS
European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), European Union (EU), Ukraine crisis, Eastern Partnership (EaP), Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Arab spring
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