The paper analyses the objectives of the EU’s new Neighbourhood Policy in response to the Arab Spring. Through its Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the EU promoted the vision of an open and integrated Mediterranean region that was organically tied to and politically oriented towards the EU. The EU considerably refined these tools and repeatedly adjusted the shape and content of its Neighbourhood Policies.
The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 drew an end to this relationship. The EU has reacted to these changes by publishing “Delivering a new European Neighbourhood Policy’ (2012). The paper questions whether the new ENP constitutes a major policy shift or is just “old wine in new bottles”.
The paper argues that the EU has failed to sufficiently adjust to the changing domestic and geopolitical context that has resulted from the Arab Spring revolutions.
Prof. Andrea Mignone - University of Genoa
andrea.mignone@unigre.it
