Brussels' new neighbourhood policy will try and get ex-Soviet states to catch up with Mediterranean rim countries in terms of pro-EU reforms - but the policy is not up to the job, one of the EU's biggest neighbours, Ukraine, says.
The new-look "European Neighbourhood Policy" (ENP) will see the EU boost its role in eastern issues such as conflict resolution in Georgia and Moldova by getting involved for the first time in multilateral foreign ministers' meetings of nearby post-Soviet states.
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EU neighbourhood policy from the point of view of Ukraine - 0 views
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Today (27.02.2007) considerable attention of the international mass media is drawn to European Commission proposals for strengthening the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) - an EU foreign policy framework designed to fill the void in its relations with a circle of neighbours from Murmansk to Casablanca. [...]
As such, can these proposals make ENP more attractive? This article intends to give an answer to this question from the point of view of a neighbour, to be precise, a European neighbour of the EU.
04.10.2006: Vorschläge der Kommission zur Stärkung der Europäischen Nachbarsc... - 0 views
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Die für Außenbeziehungen und > Europäische Nachbarschaftspolitik zuständige EU-Kommissarin Benita > Ferrero-Waldner hat heute neue Vorschläge zur Stärkung und > Weiterentwicklung der Europäischen > Nachbarschaftspolitik > [1] > vorgelegt. Die ersten achtzehn Monate praktischer Umsetzung der > Europäischen Nachbarschaftspolitik (ENP) waren bereits erfolgreich. In > ihrer jüngsten Mitteilung zur Europäischen Nachbarschaftspolitik legt > die Kommission jetzt dar, wie die ENP noch wirksamer gestaltet werden kann, > indem die EU reformwilligen Partnern hilft, ihre Reformen schneller und > effizienter voranzubringen, und sie bei eher reformträgen Partnern mehr > Überzeugungsarbeit leistet und ihnen mehr Anreize bietet. Der Mitteilung > mit den neuen Vorschlägen sind im Anhang Berichte über die > Fortschritte in den Partnerländern, die 2005 mit der Umsetzung ihrer > ENP-Aktionspläne begonnen > haben > [2] > , > beigefügt. Die Mitteilung über die Europäische > Nachbarschaftspolitik wird auch während der Ratspräsidentschaft, die > Deutschland im ersten Halbjahr 2007 übernehmen wird, wieder aufgegriffen > werden. >
22.01.2007: Ukraine wants accession prospects - 0 views
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Kiev plans to push Brussels to insert a strong reference to accession prospects in a new bilateral treaty and to get the word "association" into the title of the new document, after the EU on Monday (22 January) used wishy-washy language on future relations. "They say the Balkans have a European perspective and this is a huge stimulus for democratic and economic reform. Why don't they do this with Ukraine? Let's be fair. Let's be consistent," a Ukraine diplomat told EUobserver.
27.10.2006: Ukraine enlargement plea falls on deaf ears - 0 views
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Ukraine president Viktor Yushchenko continued to hammer on enlargement as the EU-Ukraine meeting in Helsinki drew to a close on Friday (27 October) afternoon, but got zero political commitment in return.
15.09.2006: New co-operation agreement with Ukraine - 0 views
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The Commission on 13 September 2006 proposed negotiating directives for a new agreement with Ukraine, which will extend the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement in place. Links [...]; Press Articles [...]
12.10.2006. Neighbourhood policy in European Public Opinion - 0 views
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The Eurobarometer survey, published on 10 October 2006, showed that Europeans lack basic knowledge about the European Neighbourhood Policy and EU enlargement. Only 23% of Europeans know that the EU has 25 member states, while 52% thought the EU had fewer
21.11.2006: Reflections on modifying European Neighbourhood Policy - 0 views
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The commission's detailed blueprint for the new model ENP - which aims to create a ring of peaceful and economically advanced states around the EU's borders - will be unveiled in Brussels on 29 November in time for the upcoming German EU presidency to dovetail the ideas with its own foreign policy thinking.
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"In my opinion there is no use now in overloading the topic of our bilateral relations," Mr Yushchenko said, after meeting EU top diplomat Javier Solana a few hours before the start of the EU summit. "I am trying to make our relations constructive and not even to publicly discuss what will be the name of that agreement," he added, referring to talks on a new EU-Ukraine bilateral treaty. [...]
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