Strengthening the strategic choice offered to the EU’s southern Mediterranean neighbours
Strengthening the strategic choice offered to the EU’s southern Mediterranean neighbours

Author(s): Steven Blockmans, Bart Van Vooren
Subject(s): Developing nations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: EU Maghreb Policy; EU and Africa; Migration; Mediterranean;
Summary/Abstract: The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) currently lacks a strategic vision for states in the southern Mediterranean that would offer substantial returns in exchange for making tough reforms. This lack of real incentive can be resolved through a concrete prospect of regional integration pro-actively driven forward by the European Union. Inspired by current projects such as the Energy Community Treaty, the EU should explicitly incorporate “legally binding sectoral multilateralism” into the ENP. This would provide the Union’s partners with a tangible prospect of reaping real long-term benefits from EU cooperation and reinvigorate the ENP for the next decade.

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