Migration and mobility.ĭifferentiation is a guiding principle of the EU relations with its neighbourhood. Economic development for stabilisation 2. The reviewed ENP also adds 3 joint priorities for cooperation: 1. This partnership is based on shared values, the promotion of democracy, rule of law, respect for human rights and social cohesion. The ENP builds on the commitment of the EU and its neighbours to work together on key priority areas. In 2015, the High Representative and the European Commission adopted the ENP Review, which brought a change to the cooperation framework and proposed ways to build more effective partnerships in the neighbourhood. It was launched in 2004 to foster stability, security and prosperity in the EU's neighbouring regions, both in the South and in the East. The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is the foreign policy framework aiming at bringing the EU and its Eastern and Southern neighbours closer, to their mutual benefit and interest. His role is to communicate on EU priorities, policies, positions and projects of interest to the MENA region, complementing the work of the fifteen EU Delegations present in the region. In January 2021, the EU’s first Arabic speaking Regional Media Officer for the Middle East and North Africa took office. Via the Middle East Peace process, the European Union is actively supporting efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is also a member of the so-called Middle East Quartet (US, EU, Russia and UN). The EU’s policy towards the North African and Middle Eastern countries seeks to encourage political and economic reform in each individual country in due respect for its specific features (European Neighbourhood Policy) and regional cooperation among the countries of the region themselves and with the EU (Union For the Mediterranean). The latest one to open was the EU Delegation to the State of Kuwait and the State of Qatar in July 2019.

The European Union has been present in the Middle East and North Africa since 1979, through a growing number of Delegations in the region.

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