On 24 March 2016, Professor Tobias SCHUMACHER, Chairholder of the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the Natolin (Warsaw) campus of the College of Europe, gave a talk at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, where he currently resides as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow.
His talk was entitled "The ENP is dead, long live the ENP! The EU and the Southern Mediterranean after the Arab Spring". In his talk, Professor SCHUMACHER discussed three main points:
- The pre- and post 2011 ENP is the result of a self-centred approach and an expression of the EU's concern for itself and its own well-being;
- The post-2011 and post-2015 ENP is still rooted in the enlargement logic that guided the 2003/4 ENP;
- Regardless of fits/misfits between domestic political conditions and EU demands/offers for reform/cooperation, EU influence on political and economic modernization has been low.
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