ABSTRACT
The almost five-year-old European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has become the European Union’s (EU) most tricky political endeavour. Fluctuating at the juncture of the EU’s internal/external policy divide, it encompasses 16 countries to the EU’s east (Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and the South Caucasian countries—Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia), and to its south (the Maghreb—Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, excluding Mauritania—and Mashreq—Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as Israel and the Palestinian Autonomous Areas). 1 Devised to avoid the urge of expansion in the short or medium term, the ENP stands out as an alternative to enlargement whereby the Union has become exasperated with institutional ‘widening’ and has opted to focus on ‘deepening’, representing integration ‘with’, rather than ‘into’ the EU.
