Title: The European Neighbourhood Policy: a Strategy for Security in Europe?
Abstract: The 2004 enlargement of the European Union (EU) was heralded as 'historic' in terms of both its magnitude and geopolitical outreach, yielding the Central and East European countries' ultimate 'return to Europe'. Enlargement, however, resulted in more than the mere addition of ten new member states. It also pushed the EU much closer towards what is broadly conceived as a 'new neighbourhood' and into an area that the EU considers to be of paramount importance for security in Europe. The future of EU engagement in its neighbourhood will depend on two decisive factors. First, the EU is in an uncertain and difficult period of internal adjustment and consolidation after enlargement and the failed referenda in France and the Netherlands on the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe. Second, the EU is about to absorb the impact that new members such as Poland and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) will have on the EU's foreign policy towards Eastern Europe (EU Eastern Policy1). It is in this context that the EU is compelled to devise a strategy for the 'new neighbourhood' countries, in particular Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.KeywordsEuropean UnionEuropean CouncilEuropean Union Member StateEuropean SecurityEuropean Union MembershipThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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