Should Europe rely on the Slovak example to plan out its neighborhood policy with South Mediterranean countries?
The success of the integration of Central European countries in the European Union seems to have inspired the new European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), a policy that the EU is suggesting to other Mediterranean and Eastern European countries, with the aim of strengthening the Barcelona process. Could the Slovak case be cited as a reference model in this regard? Challenges In a relatively short period of time, Slovakia must have exerted lots of efforts to include the concept of “Communitarian Acquis” in its national legislation, this concept being the common ground of rights and obligations that connects all member states to the Union. That was a huge challenge for Slovakia and other Central European countries. Important administrative and institutional reforms were necessary to achieve the implementation of this communitarian legislation. Slovakia succeeded in this challenge. It is difficult to establish a detailed account of losses and profits for such reforms or to pinpoint whether one
