ENP Financial Instruments: Need for a Change
ENP Financial Instruments: Need for a Change

Summary/Abstract: As our experience shows, EU policies towards neighbors are in many ways ineffective. One of the reasons could be inadequate and badly organized and positioned financial tools that are helping policies to be realized. Introduction of the new instrument (ENPI) brought new hopes that the European neighborhood policy will better on target and will meet needs, hopes and development strategies of not only EU member states, but also EU neighborhood countries. Even though it’s difficult to evaluate the ENPI impacts today (at the stage when the new programs just started to work), it’s clear that we already need discussion on the ENPI reform. It’s because the ENPI needs more visibility, transparency and accountability, it needs more involvement of other actors (NGOs, local governments …) in to the processes related to spending of the EU funds in neighboring countries and it also needs citizens’ support so aims of the ENP could became reality. We also need more simple, less bureaucratic, varied and flexible financial (delivery) tools that will cope with the emerging problems that ENP countries face.

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