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The paper is an indeep analysis about the neighbourhood policy in Europe with a special focus on situation in Eastern and Southern area of our continent.

Authors of "The European Union and its neighbourhood in a changing world. Defining a new strategic relationship with the Eastern and Southern neighbours." are Agata Hinc, Maria Sadowska and Paweł Świeboda.

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Introduction:

In the period of the last few years, the European Neighbourhood Policy has become one of the EU’s most established flagship projects. There is hardly a session of EU foreign ministers which does not touch in one way or the other on the ENP. There is a commissioner responsible for external relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy. It is a top priority of a number, if not a majority, of the member states. Heavily criticised at times for not living up to its expectations, the ENP seems to have been around since the time immemorial. And yet the policy is only several years’ old and by definition in statu nascendi. In a short time, it has become a trademark for the EU’s engagement with its Eastern and Southern neighbours. Having said that, it carries a DNA code of a different historical period. Born in the context of the EU’s most extensive ever enlargement to include 12 countries of Central and Southern Europe, the ENP was a policy designed to avoid new dividing lines between members of the club and the less distant outsiders. As such, it was a policy for the calm waters of a simple world in which the EU would continue to exercise influence in its immediate proximity by virtue of its unique prosperity and model of cooperation. Several years later, the world is a different place. The European Neighbourhood Policy must begin to reflect that new reality if it is to remain relevant on the global “market of power” which is emerging in front of our eyes.

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