Abstract
The Eastern enlargement of the European Union has fundamentally redrawn the map of Europe. Together with the extension of its borders, the EU is facing an extension of both its impact and its responsibilities in the wider Europe. The enlarged EU now borders several former Soviet Republics and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Some of these new neighbours have made membership of the European Union a strategic priority. Even if the EU cannot offer them a prospect of membership, it has an increased responsibility towards them: a responsibility to create stability, a responsibility to mitigate the negative impact of enlargement on these outsiders and a responsibility to take up its role as a regional political force. At the same time, the EU plays a more active political role, mainly pursuing stability around the enlarged EU, in the framework of its new European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP).
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