title: The contestation of values in the European Neighbourhood Policy: challenges of capacity, consistency and competition
abstract: When launching the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the European Union (EU) expected that through a steady process of rapprochement, the neighbouring countries would progressively become part of the EU’s community of values. The European Commission (2004: 5) declared that “[t]he European Neighbourhood Policy’s vision involves a ring of countries, sharing the EU’s fundamental values and objectives, drawn into an increasingly close relationship, going beyond co-operation to involve a significa