The Principle of Good Neighbourliness and the European Neighbourhood Policy

Unprecedented geopolitical and security changes that culminated in deep political crisis in Ukraine in 2014 have brought new challenges to the EU’s external policy towards the East. It appeared that the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) failed to prevent escalating civil conflict in Ukraine and withdrawal of some of the EU eastern neighbours from the course of European integration. The ENP was born in 2004 with ambitious objective to avoid the emergence of new dividing lines between the enlarged EU and the EU’s neighbourhood and to strengthen the prosperity, stability and security beyond the EU borders in line with the principle of good neighbourliness. However these objectives look too far to be fully achieved today. In the meantime the EU’s neighbourhood is an area of active and hidden civil conflicts, intricate border disputes and escalating security threats. Does it mean that the principle of good neighbourliness failed to play its role? The first part of the chapter is devoted to study of the scope and content of the ENP and the EaP and role of the principle of good neighbourliness within these policies. The second part of the chapter analyses the impact of the principle of good neighbourliness on the ‘post-Crimea’ and ‘post-Donbass’ EU neighbourhood

Applying the European Union's 'Energy Acquis' in Eastern Neighbouring Countries: The Cases of Ukraine and Moldova

The Treaty of Lisbon paved the way for legal formalization of new European Union policies and significantly enhanced the external dimension of the European Union Internal Market. The newly emerged European Union energy policy is a good example of this. External objectives of the European Union energy policy are being fulfilled through the Energy Community which embraces not only European Union Member States and candidate countries but also third countries without any perspective of membership in the EU. The Energy Community is designed as a perfect example of the ‘integration without membership’ model which gives a stake for third countries in the European Union Internal Market and promotes European Union’s sectoral acquis beyond the EU borders and plays a role of a laboratory working on better and deeper engagement of third countries into expanding the European Legal Space. This article focuses on challenges of the process of the application of the EU ‘energy acquis’ in Ukraine and Moldova

The External Dimension of the Acquis Communautaire

The aim of this article is to study the concept of the acquis communautaire in the domain of EU external relations. It is argued that the acquis communautaire varies according to the specific aims of its internal and external applications. The main objective of the acquis communautaire in its internal dimension is to enable the consistent development of the EU while preserving EC/EU patrimony by Member States. The objective of the acquis communautaire application in its external dimension is to push third countries to the forefront of the acquired level of economic, political and legal cooperation achieved by the EU. It is argued that the acquis communautaire is applied consistently in its external dimension, but mirrors the specific objectives of each new application. In order to comprehend the full scope of the application of the acquis communautaire, one must take into consideration both the general objectives of EU external policy towards third countrie