ABSTRACT
The promotion of regional cooperation is firmly anchored in the EU’s foreign policy approach (Ponjaert, 2013). Generally speaking, support for regional integration elsewhere stems from both the projection of the EU’s own experience and from its vocation towards multilevel (effective) multilateralism (Telò, 2014). However, with increasing global interdependence and the development of an external dimension to EU internal policies, interregionalism can also follow more strategic motivations that are linked to the realization of internal policy goals in the EU rather than promoting regional cooperation per se.
