Deepening the Wider Europe
Deepening the Wider Europe

Summary/Abstract: The enlarging European Union’s foreign policy agenda has three big new ideas to be worked on: the Wider Europe (or New Neighbours) initiative launched last year by the Commission, the European Security Strategy prepared also last year by Javier Solana, and now from across the Atlantic the hint of a grand Western strategy for the Greater Middle East... The Wider Europe is the first to get started. Yet it none of the clients seem happy with it: Ukraine and Moldova because they want more, and in particular a perspective of EU membership; the South Caucasus states because they were excluded, although the Saakashvili velvet revolution now forces a rethink upon the EU; Russia because it wants just a bilateral relationship with the EU over all-European affairs, and a free hand to try to reintegrate its near abroad, which they see the Wider Europe as challenging...

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