Analyse : Différentes perspectives sur la politique européenne de voisinage

Ce numéro de ‘Foreign Policy in Dialogue’, publié par Deutsche-Aussenpolitik.De, analyse la politique de voisinage de l’Union européenne vue par la Commission européenne, la France, l’Allemagne, la Pologne, l’Ukraine et la Moldavie. 

Policies of the European Communities towards its neighborhood have been a crucial supplement to the integration process, especially since the end of bipolarity in Europe and with the rising political ambitions of the European project. Yet since the turn of the millennium, traditional European neighborhood policies have been put under pressure by profound changes inside and outside of Europe. The big-bang enlargement to ten new member states was completed in May 2004. Externally, it transformed the neighborhood of the EU, which now includes Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Near East (with Malta and Cyprus being new members). This heightened concern about political grey areas and different layers of economic prosperity and integration in the geographical area between the EU und Russia. Internally, the most recent enlargement contributed to enlargement fatigue in West European societies which makes the accession of further countries beyond Bulgaria and Rumania, which received a firm accession perspective, politically controversial and thus difficult (Turkey, the Western Balkans). 

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), launched in 2003 and 2004, is a response to these internal and external challenges by offering the EU’s neighbors to the south and to the east new forms of cooperation while remaining short of an accession perspective for these countries. This issue of Foreign Policy in Dialogue adds to the lively public and academic debate on the ENP by offering a focused comparison of perspectives from the European Commission, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Moldova.

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