European Neighbourhood Policy
A Framework for Modernisation?
Workshop: 1-2 December 2006
The Theatre, Badia Fiesolana
Via dei Roccettini 9, San Domenico di Fiesole
The last wave of enlargement has specifically affected relations between the European Union and those partners which are close to its borders, but which – more or less willingly – have not so far been included in the list of prospective members.
In this context, the EU has reconsidered its strategy towards neighbouring countries and launched the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which was the subject of an initial communication transmitted by the Commission to the Council and to the European Parliament on 11th March 2003.
The great novelty of the ENP was that, for the first time, an official document argued explicitly that the EU’s neighbours should align with Union norms and Community legislation in return of a “prospect of a stake in the EU’s internal market and further integration and liberalisation to promote the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital”.
The Department of Law of the European University Institute (EUI), the Academy of European Law at the EUI with the participation of the Department of Law of the University of Regensburg will organise a Workshop - to be held in Florence on the 1st and the 2nd of December 2006 - in order to stimulate a discussion aimed at capturing and integrating the different levels of analysis of a policy which is multi-disciplinary in nature.
In particular, the workshop intends to explore from a trans-disciplinary perspective the objectives of and instruments devised for the ENP and to consider in this light the capacity of the policy to promote a fundamental process of modernisation in the target countries.
This will be done in the conviction that a reconsideration of the coherence between instruments and objectives of the ENP is particularly urgent in that it is likely to affect not only the effectiveness of the policy itself, but also the ability of the EU to contribute to stability and security around its borders and, ultimately, the position of the EU in the international arena.
Organisers: Profs. Marise Cremona and Wojciech Sadurski