The EUs Enlargement and Mediterranean Strategies

This book analyses and compares the preferential relations between the EU and the countries on its eastern and southern peripheries. It presents a comprehensive study of the emerging pan-Euro-Mediterranean regional integration and analyses the economic, political and social strategies adopted by the EU and will be an indispensable reference work for those working on issues related to EU enlargement and integration.

Autorentext
PETER BALAZS Ambassador of Hungary in Germany and Professor of the Budapest School of Economics WILLY DE CLERCQ MEP and Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizen's Rights of the European Parliament MARIANNE DONY Lecturer in European Law, Brussels University GEOFFREY DENTON Senior Research Fellow, Federal Trust, London CATHERINE FLAESCH-MOUGIN Professor, University of Rennes I ALAIN GUGGENBÜHL Lecturer of European Governance, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht TOM HAENEBALCKE Researcher, European Institute, University of Ghent STEFANO INANA UNCTAD Project Manager KIRSTYN INGLIS Research Assistant at the European Institute, University of Ghent BICHARA KHADER Professor, Catholic University of Louvain KRIS POLLET Legal Department of the Overlegcentrum voor Integratie can Vluchtelingen ANDREI POPESCU University Professor in the National School for Political Studies and Public Administration JEAN RAUX Emeritus Professor at the University of Rennes I

Zusammenfassung
It presents a comprehensive study of the emerging pan-Euro-Mediterranean regional integration and analyses the economic, political and social strategies adopted by the EU and will be an indispensable reference work for those working on issues related to EU enlargement and integration.

Inhalt
Preface; W.D.Clercq Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms General Introduction The Need for a Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Strategy: The Triangular Approach; M.Maresceau & E.Lannon PART I: THE POLITICAL AND SECURITY DIMENSION The EU Pre-Accession Strategy: A Political and Legal Analysis; M.Maresceau Europe's Mediterranean Strategy: The Security Dimension; A.Vasconcelos Towards a Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Association of Proximity; J.Raux Differentiation and Association within the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Area; C.Flaesch-Mougin The Many Faces of EU Conditionality in Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Relations; E.Lannon, K.Inglis & T.Haenebalcke PART II: THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DIMENSION Agenda 2000 and EU Budget Strategy: Funding Enlargement and Relations with Eastern and Southern Neighbours; G.Denton The Optimum Strategy for a Spoke: Linking with Other Spokes or Other Hubs?; A.Tovias Free Movement of Services and the Right of Establishment in a Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Economic Area: Between EU Membership an the GATS (?); L.Van Den Hende Towards a Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Integration: A Survey of Issues in the Agricultural Sector; M.Dony Pan-European Rules of Origin and the Establishment of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Zone; S.Inama The Financial Assistance of the European Union to its Eastern and Southern Neighbours: A Comparative Analysis; A.Guggenbühl & M.Theelen PART III: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND HUMAN DIMENSION EU Pre-accession Strategy: The Social Dimension; A.Popescu Economic, Social and Political Impact of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership; B.Khader Company Law Harmonization and Reform as a Vehicle for Regional Integration; P.G.Xuereb Towards Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Environmental Co-governance; K.Inglis The European Union and Migratory Pressure from the Mediterranean and Central and Eastern Europe; K.Pollet General Conclusion: Objectives and Motivations of a Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Regional Integration; P.Balázs Annex Index