The EU and sub-regional multilateralism in Europe’s sea basins: Neighbourhood, Enlargement and Multilateral Cooperation. An FP7 collaborative research project (2009-2011) conducting an analysis of sub-regional multilateralism in the four maritime basins (Baltic, Black, Caspian and Mediterranean).
A seminar bringing together experts (both members and non members of
the partnership) and practitioners from all four basins. The seminar will address
the impact
of the ENP and other EU initiatives on the free trade areas and the free movement of people within the four
sea basins (Kyiv, 9th-10th
June, 2010)
The seminar focuses on the 'four freedoms' that define the EU's internal market, that is free movement of goods, people, services and capitals. The fact, being the main achievement of the EU and its defining base, is that the effects of memembership or perspective to become member of some countries in one region are bound to be strongly felt by the region as a whole.
This event will analyse motly the impact on trade and economic links on the one hand, and on free movement of people (including visa policies and border controls, but also actual movement of people for migration and other purposes) on the other.
The very different situations in each of the basins, from the Baltic, where all states but one are EU members, to the Caspian, where none is even a candidate, will allow to study a diversity of political and economical contexts and different degrees of integration in the EU neighbourhood.
A seminar bringing together experts (both members and non members of
the partnership) and practitioners from all four basins. The seminar will address
the impact
of the ENP and other EU initiatives on the free trade areas and the free movement of people within the four
sea basins (Kyiv, 9th-10th
June, 2010)
