The EUs Enlargement and Mediterranean Strategies A Comparative Analysis [Hardcover]

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.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.Guggenb?hl & 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-MelCÒ