ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how the various legal, policy and strategic frameworks designed by the European Union (EU) for its neighbours, and their neighbours, could be better integrated, or at least linked by developing transnational and cross-regional cooperation initiatives. It outlines the challenges that the interconnectedness of many problems in the broader neighbourhood pose. The chapter presents an overview of the fragmentation of the EU's frameworks in these regions. Indeed, Russia and Turkey, two key players in the area, have developed and are developing their own policies and strategies in neighbourhoods partly shared with the EU. Ignoring the interconnections between the EU's immediate and broader neighbourhood carries the risk of inconsistent and ineffective policies. The chapter concludes that the review of the European Neighbourhood Policy could have been better coordinated with the European Security Strategy review and that a joined-up approach requires, as stressed by the European external action service, 'the end of geographical silos'.
