An EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region: Good Intentions Meet Complex Challenges (2009:9epa)
The EU is about to adopt a comprehensive strategy for the Baltic Sea region. While intuitively attractive, the idea of the strategy nonetheless gives rise to a set of critical questions.
In this European Policy Analysis, Assistant Professor Rikard Bengtsson introduces the content and procedures of the strategy and identifies a number of challenges that need to be addressed. These challenges range from difficulties in improving efficiency to problems related to the intra-regionalization of the EU and the lack of an external perspective, more specifically by ignoring Russia as a key determinant for the potential success of the strategy.
The analysis is part of the research project EU as a global actor.
An EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region: Good Intentions Meet Complex Challenges (2009:9epa) (80.96 kB)