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Redouane MOUHOUB
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was implemented in 2004 by the European Union (EU) in order to create an area of prosperity, stability, security and economic cooperation with the neighbouring countries with the aim of avoiding the emergence of new dividing lines between the enlarged EU and its neighbours. However, this policy has, paradoxically, caused the opposite. The conclusion of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine plunged this country into the instability and caused the deterioration of the relations between the EU and Russia, thus creating new dividing lines between the EU and its great neighbour. This crisis and the failure of the EU to play its stabilising role within the south of the Mediterranean Sea aroused much interest to review the EU’s neighbourhood policy.

ŒCONOMICA no. 4/2015
Keywords: ENP, EU, Ukraine, Russia, neighbourhood, energy
JEL: F50, F51, F53, F59
Ukraine… The Big Test for the European Neighbourhood Policy [L’Ukraine… Un grand test pour la Politique Européenne de Voisinage]