The European Union plans to review its Neighborhood Policy in relation to 16 countries participating in partnership programs with the EU in the autumn of 2015, EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn has said.
Such a review will be conducted next autumn because the EU needs to pursue this Neighborhood Policy bearing in mind the specifics of each of these 16 countries, Hahn said at a meeting with business people in Kyiv on Nov. 28.
The EU is formulating new cooperation incentives because such relations should proceed in the form of partnership, he said.
The planned review of the EU’s policy may also help forge closer ties between the business communities of all countries taking part in the project, he added.
Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and the Palestinian National Authority participate in the European Neighborhood Policy.
