Remaking Europe's Borders through the European Neighbourhood Policy. CEPS Working Document No. 327, March 2010
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2010

This Working Document explores the implications of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) as an ambitious EU foreign policy for the development of a European political community. It suggests that the ENP can be viewed as an attempt to reconcile two potentially contradictory processes. The first – ‘border confirming’ – is about confirming border areas of demarcation and division, in which borders are conceived as boundary lines, frontier zones or barriers that protect the European Union and its