With the formulation of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the European Union (EU) has become an increasingly important player in a region that Russia regards as its ‘near-abroad’. While both Russia and the EU seek to position themselves as regional actors, there are important...

This paper, the third in a series for a CEPS project on the ‘The British Question', is pegged on an ambitious exercise by the British government to review all the competences of the European Union on the basis of evidence submitted by independent stakeholders. The reviews considered in this...