Promotion of Democracy in EU’s neighbourhood: The ENP and its effectiveness.

Abstract

In this dissertation we study the promotion of democracy and political reforms in the countries included in the ENP. The period of study is from the establishment of the policy until the year of 2014 and the end of service of J. M. Barroso in the Presidency of the European Commission. The basic features of the policy are presented along with its instruments, the rationale behind the proposal of the policy and the factors that motivated the review of the policy in 2011. The main objectives of the field of political dialogue and reforms of each Action Plan for every country are presented along with the results recorded in the progress reports for each country. This dissertation examines whether ENP has been equally effective in promoting democracy and political reforms in the two regions that are included in the policy and concludes that the two regions differ completely both to their needs to implement democratic reforms as well as their perception of the policy.