Publication

The paper discusses the effectiveness of European Neighbourhood Policy. It diagnoses the key challenges faced by the European Union as it re-calibrates its policy towards its immediate neighbors to the east and to the south, spurred by the recognition of inadequate progress in the former case, and by a tectonic shift in the socio-political landscape in the latter case. The authors argue that the EU needs to urgently address the disconnect between its own objectives in the neighborhood, and the expectations of its partners, who are themselves a hugely heterogenic group.