EU Eastern Neighbourhood: Economic Potential and Future Development (ENEPO)

The project analyzes the economic and institutional development of Eastern European countries which are not members of the European Union.

An EU-project conducted incooperation with partners in 11 countries under the coordination of CASE, Warsaw.

Participants

Arne Melchior

EU Eastern Neighbourhood: Economic Potential and Future Development (ENEPO)

The ENEPO project seeks to examine different aspects of the European Union’s relations with its neighbours to the east (the so-called “eastern neighbourhood”). Primarily it focuses on the economic features of an EU Eastern neighbourhood such as:

- Perspectives and conditions for closing the development gap between the CIS and the enlarged EU.

- CIS-EU trade relations including the energy sector.

- Capital flows and FDI; investment climate in recipient countries.

- The potential role of labour migration and its social consequences; cooperation in the area of justice, security and freedom.

- Institutional harmonization of CIS economies with EU standard and the role of the EU in leveraging this.

In particular, the project will analyze the links between the four basic market freedoms - i.e. free movement of goods, services, capital and people - and various incentives which can speed up economic and institutional development in CIS countries and their closer integration with the enlarged EU.

Finansiering

The European Commission