Professional paper

Politics of the EU Towards Its Neighbors: Euro-Mediterranean and Eastern Partnership

Marijana Musladin ; Department of Communicology, University of Dubrovnik

Abstract

External borders of the European Union on the east and south were expanded by the 2004 enlargement of the EU. There are some new neighbours on the
east: Russia, Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. When Malta and Cyprus became members of the EU, south Mediterranean countries also entered the group of new neighbours. Although they are direct neighbours, economic, political, social and security level of development is very different from that in the EU. Aware of the danger that can come out of neglecting cooperation with direct neighbours, but also of the fact that it needs stable and developed neighbourhood, the EU has formulated a several policy strategies which provided a framework for the development of new relationships with neighboring countries, thus preventing the emergence of new dividing lines - European Neighbourhood Policy (2004.), Union for the Mediterranean (2008), as an upgrade of the Barcelona Process (1995.) and Eastern Partnership (2009). The aim of this pa per isto set out the basic features of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Union for the Mediterranean) and the Eastern Partnership and to show differences in the approach of the EU towards two regions - Mediterranean and Eastern Europe, and South Caucasus.

Keywords

European Union; Euro-mediterranean Partnership; Union for the Mediterranean; European Neighbourhood Policy; Eastern Partnership; Mediterranean; Eastem Europe; South Caucasus

Hrčak ID:

291675

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/291675

Publication date:

20.11.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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