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This paper discusses the economic policy regimes of the European Union towards their neighbors and identifies six different regimes. The authors observe that the EU economic regime extends its outreach to all categories of countries with a diminishing degree of acceptance of EU economic norms and adoption of EU economic rules in the areas further away from the EU core. Generally, the EU gravitational pull is getting weaker in the more distant periphery and the EU instruments are shifting from more traditional methods of hierarchical governance to softer modes of horizontal cooperation.