EGMONT Institute: Use Connectivity to Strengthen Multilateral Cooperation in the EU’s Neighbourhood

 

Use Connectivity to Strengthen Multilateral Cooperation in the EU’s Neighbourhood

By Sven Biscop 

(15 September 2020) 

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• EU and strategic partners,
 
• EU strategy and foreign policy,
 
• European defence / NATO

To strengthen multilateralism in their own neighbourhood, Germany and the EU should pursue connectivity strategies with their Eastern and Southern neighbours. These could create the links between the EU’s neighbours that previous partnership agreements have failed to establish. They should include political and security dimensions for states to feel connected to the EU in a political sense.

This commentary was also published in PeaceLab Blog

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