The North Africa Journal: Potential Pitfalls in the EU’s “More for More” Approach to Democratization in North Africa

Potential Pitfalls in the EU’s “More for More” Approach to Democratization
in North Africa
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Alec Simantov on 05 June, 2012 04:38:00
 
Among the central tenets of the new ENP is the “more for more” approach,
which stipulates greater rewards in economic assistance and EU market access for
partner countries in exchange for substantive and far-reaching political
reforms.  While at first this seems to be a welcome change in rhetoric, and
hopefully policy, from the EU, questions remain as to whether this really
represents a true policy shift that will help strengthen reform and
democratization in North Africa, or if such an approach will simply perpetuate a
cycle of mismanaged EU-North Africa relations. Read full analysis here.