Analyse : Plaidoyer pour une politique européenne de voisinage plus ferme

Dans cet article de la revue trimestrielle « Integration » de l’Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Barbara Lippert souhaite que la politique européenne de voisinage soit intensifiée. 

Abstract:  
The EU is in a dilemma. The current 25 Member States can neither work up the courage to collectively say “Yes” to further enlargement, nor can they sustain a collective “No” over the long term. In such a dilemma, it is imperative for the EU to win back its power to shape developments by investing more confidence and wider appeal in its Neighbourhood Policy. As a successor to the soon expiring Partnership and Cooperation Agreements a new type of Association Agreement shall be concluded with the countries of Eastern Europe. These are conceived in terms of a partnership towards modernisation and stability but should not contain an explicit reference to the option of membership. Furthermore, the EU should establish a “pan-European Federative Association of Tasks” with Eastern European neighbours. This is meant to provide long-term functional co-operation in the course of which common decision-making procedures and institutions will be developed. The pan-European Federative Association of Tasks has the prospect to provide the basis for building a community in its own right and to contribute to re-ordering the continent.

A full version of the article (in German) can be downloaded here.