European Neighborhood Policy and the Arab Spring
European Neighborhood Policy and the Arab Spring

Summary/Abstract: The Mediterranean possess strategic, political and economic aspects that are important to the European Union. The European Union implemented the Global Mediterranean Policy in 1972, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership in 1995 and the European Neighborhood Policy in 2004. The Union, however, along with the Arab Spring process, struggled to implement a common foreign policy because of the conflicting interests from its members. This article will examine, the emergence of the European Neighborhood Policy, which the EU is applying for a cultural, economic and political convergence towards its neighbors, and the transformation of this policy with the Arab Spring process.

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