Assessing the ENP

On the 18 November 2015, High Representative Federica Mogherini and Commissioner Johannes Hahn released a joint Communication on the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Review. Listening was a Europe whose attention was understandably elsewhere in the wake of the Paris attacks, with an ongoing refugee crisis to deal with, which is itself fast becoming a footnote to the more dominant fear of terrorism in some member states.

But the ENP is a tool intricately linked with both these more immediate concerns of migration and security, and if the new set of policies that emerges after the review are worth their salt, ought to have serious implications for both.

The author assesses the Communication.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Review of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP): stronger partnerships for a stronger neighbourhood http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-review-of-the-european-neighbourhood-policy-enp-stronger-partnerships-for-a-stronger-neighbourhood/

ESO: Background information: Europe’s Neighbourhood: Crisis as the new normal http://www.europeansources.info/record/europes-neighbourhood-crisis-as-the-new-normal/

European Commission / EEAS: JOIN (2015)50 - Joint Communication ... Review of the European Neighbourhood Policy http://eeas.europa.eu/enp/documents/2015/151118_joint-communication_review-of-the-enp_en.pdf

ECFR: Commentary, 20.11.15: Ten talking points from the new ENP http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_ten_talking_points_from_the_new_enp5021

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