ABSTRACT
The Eastern Partnership (EaP, hereinafter referred to as “this plan”) is a part of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) framework proposed by the European Union in 2004. ENP is a joint initiative framework jointly proposed by the European Union, EU member states and EU’s eastern and southern neighbouring countries, aiming to improve the level of political coalition and economic integration between the European Union and the above countries. There are 16 target countries in the ENP, which are classified into 2 types: target countries of the Eastern Partnership and target countries of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Among the Eastern Partnership, there are 6 ENP target countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Different from the governance inside the European Union and the EU governance for EU-accession and potential candidate countries, the ENP emphasises a Europeanised renovation of target countries in political, economic and social fields, but the ENP’s target countries are not intended for EU accession within a short time. Therefore, ENP essentially aims to realise an outward development of internal policies of the European Union under a premise that the scope of the European Union is not expanded, which is a neighbourhood Europeanisation. 1
