European Neighborhood Policy: Some Conclusions in a Country - Specific Framing

Abstract

After 2007, European Neighbourhood Policy made progress in terms of consolidation and focus. Besides, under the Lisbon Treaty, the ENP became more composite and more or less better defined, improving its monitoring procedures. The European Union tendency to be more effective in promoting growth and prosperity in the neighborhood brought benefits as well as challenges. Thus, under an interpretative methodology authors analyze the existing literature on European Neighbourhood Policy and afferent official European Union documents regarding the foreign policy in order to reflect both opportunities and limitations of the European Neighbourhood Policy implementation in neighbor countries. In fact, present paper is rather a summary of some general outcomes in a country-specific framing (that of Republic of Moldova-the poorest country of Europe). However, at the end of this article we conclude with some strengths that define the European Neighbourhood Policy a coherent and ambitious policy for Moldova despite all global challenges.

Keywords

• european neighborhood policy
• action plan
• conditionality
• lisbon treaty
• european union