Between aspirations and reality - The European neighbourhood policy

In the European Neighbourhood Policy, the European Union is pursuing a lofty aim. It wants to create a ring of friendly states from the Barents Sea to the Mediterranean and thus guarantee security and stability beyond the EU's external borders. The new offers of co-operation embrace numerous fields of policy, but exclude accession to the European Union. The ENP is therefore marginally suitable to creating security and stability in bordering states.