Thursday, 24 July 2008

Enlargement, Pre-Accession and Neighbourhood (EPAN) Working Group

CONCORD’s working group on enlargement, pre-accession and neighbourhood issues, also known as EPAN, has launched a process that should enable the group to make a well-informed contribution to a mid-term review of the EU’s neighbourhood partnership instrument, which is due to take place next year.

Members of the working group are disseminating a questionnaire among their partners in the neighbouring countries of Egypt and Ukraine to gather views and experiences of the European Union’s Neighbourhood policy (ENP) and the accompanying partnership instrument (ENPI).

It is hoped that these experiences will allow the group to analyse the information gathered and assess where improvements could be made in the future. The information will be gathered over the next couple of months, and a preliminary analysis will be available by the time of the working group’s next meeting in October.

Copies of the questionnaire and more information about the case studies can be requested from Rebecca Steel: trialog@concordeurope.org

For more information on EPAN, please visit: http://www.trialog.or.at/start.asp?ID=107

Information provided by Rebecca Steel, TRIALOG

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