The European Neighbourhood Policy – Values and Principles

In order to establish an area of prosperity, stability and security in the neighbourhood, the EU promotes its values to encourage outside countries to adopt its economic and political model. This book carries out a legal analysis of the values and principles underpinning the European Neighbourhood Policy: the principles of the internal market, sustainable development, respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of minorities. Exploring the instruments that the EU deploys to spread its values and to achieve its interests in the neighbourhood, it assesses to what extent the EU has been (and is) consistent in upholding its values in its relations with individual ENP countries while exploring how the EU values are received by partner countries.

The European Neighbourhood Policy is a key part of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU), through which the EU works with its southern and eastern neighbours with a view to furthering its interests and achieving the closest possible degree of political association and economic integration. The policy is underpinned by a set of values and principles that the EU seeks to promote.

carries out a legal analysis of the values and principles that form the basis for the European Neighbourhood Policy – respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights (including the rights of minorities), plus the principles of conditionality, differentiation and coherence.

This collection explores the instruments that the EU has deployed under the European Neighbourhood Policy to spread its values and to achieve its interests. It assesses to what extent the EU has been (and is) consistent in upholding its values in its relations with neighbouring countries, and examines how these values have been received by these countries. The book looks in particular at the nature of EU-Russia relations, seeking to identify areas of common interest as well as those of actual and potential disagreement.