ENP valuable but East-South differences must be taken into account, say MEPs

The countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in Eastern Europe and the Southern Mediterranean respectively need to be dealt with in quite different ways, MEPs stated this week.

On Thursday 15 November, the European Parliament adopted a report assessing the ENP which “expresses doubt about the meaningfulness of the ENP's geographic scope, as it involves countries which geographically are European together with Mediterranean non-European countries.” For this reason, it advocates that “the unified implementation of the policy take as much account as possible of the differing identities of all the countries covered by the ENP.”