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The dramatic popular uprisings sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East require that Europe reassess and reformulate its policies towards its neighbours to the south. European policy towards the region must, now more than ever, strive to promote the very values of democracy and freedom upon which the European project itself has been based, while also taking into account the unique social and cultural nuances at play in the region and in each country individually. Moreover, European policy must involve a strong merit-based component tied directly to concrete and measurable progress. Finally, EU leaders need to consider Europe's neighbourhood policy from a holistic standpoint. Addressing the important events in the southern neighbourhood should not come at the expense of the EU's commitment to its eastern neighbours who have made substantial progress towards free and democratic systems.

Conceptualizes the stages & sequences of the EU's European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), viewing it as a kind of externalized EU-centric governance to partially integrate countries on its periphery into "policy-taking" vs policy-making processes. Focus is on EU relations with Ukraine & Moldova. The governance approach to EU international relations is outlined before providing a brief overview of the ENP's development, substance, & principles. The governance model is then applied to the development of the ENP to evaluate its potential for modifying the boundaries of EU governance & changing the European political order. Adapted from the source document.

This paper analyzes the process of industrial diversification in the countries that were part of the European Union (EU-27) and those that were the target of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in the period 1995–2010 by means of world trade data derived from the BACI database (elaborated UN Comtrade data). Our results show that in both the EU-27 and the ENP countries, the evolution of the productive structure—as proxied by the export mix—is strongly path-dependent: countries tend to keep a comparative advantage in products that are strongly related to their current productive structure, and they also diversify in nearby products. However, this effect is much stronger for ENP countries, signalling their lower resources and capabilities to diversify in products that are not very related to their productive structure. We also show that the future export structures of countries are affected by their imports: both the EU-27 and ENP countries keep a comparative advantage in products that are strongly related to their imports, but only EU countries show a strong capability to diversify in new products from related import sectors. Our results also hold when controlling for geographical and institutional proximity.