From regional power to global power? The European Neighbourhood Policy after the Lisbon Treaty

The european neighbourhood policy (enp) was established in 2004 to provide a framework for coherent and efficient eu action towards its neighbours in the east and the south. Coherence was meant to be achieved in the eu’s approach across various policies, but also across various countries. This chapter investigates how the lisbon treaty has affected the institutional set-up of the eu’s relations with its neighbours, the main underlying logics of the enp framework and its effects on the eu’s global and regional standing. We take an institutional and political approach, asking how and to what extent the set-up of the eeas, the strengthened role of the high representative and the change in the role of the rotating presidency all affect the eu’s policy-making towards its neighbours. The lisbon provisions are only now being implemented. As such, institutional and political developments in the eu’s policy-making system are the focus of this chapter. To what extent does the lisbon treaty strengthen or diminish the logics underlying the enp? what implications might this have for the eu’s efforts to become an actor of global reach? or is the eu instead consolidating its regional power base with more limited geopolitical ambitions?keywordsmember stateforeign policypartner countryexternal relationlisbon treatythese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.