European Neighborhood Policy and the Arab Spring

Öz

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.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• European Neighborhood Policy,European Union,Arab Spring,Barcelona Process,Global Mediterranean Policy

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