The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) package adopted assesses the first year of implementation of the new “more for more” policy with the EU Southern and Eastern neighbourhoods. It also proposes a roadmap for giving further impetus to the implementation of the Eastern Partnership.

Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Commission Vice-President and Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, presented the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) package that assesses the first year of implementation of the new “more for more” approach with the EU Southern and Eastern neighbourhoods. It also proposes a roadmap for giving further impetus to the implementation of the Eastern Partnership. In October 2011, local and regional authorities show their disposal to have a key role to play in EU Eastern Partnership.

According to Ms Asthon, the results of this review shows that the effort to intensify assistance to those who went further in democratic and economic reforms. She also highlighted that there have been great progress in some countries. In others, the EU need to encourage the political leadership to take bold steps down the path to reform. For instance, steps were taken towards visa liberalisation with Eastern partners, namely the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia. A mobility partnership has been recently established with Armenia and negotiations on mobility partnership with Azerbaijan could be launched soon. A special offer in this area has been made to Belarus. In the South, dialogues on migration, mobility and security were launched with Morocco and Tunisia, opening the way to mobility partnerships.

On the other hand, Mr Füle presented at the same time, and such as it was agreed at the Eastern Partnership Summit in Warsaw in 2011, a separate joint Communication proposing A Roadmap to the autumn 2013 Eastern Partnership Summit. The Communication describes for the first time the full range of bilateral and multilateral activities under the Eastern Partnership, and the Roadmap reconfirms the shared commitment of the EU and the Eastern European partner countries to democratic reforms and economic transformation.