The need to revise the ENP is, on the one hand, a result of the failure of the uniform "one size fits all" approach and, on the other, a consequence of ongoing fragmentation and decomposition of the relative uniformity of both the Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood.
Potreba po pregledu evropske sosedske politike (v nadaljnjem besedilu: ESP) je na eni strani posledica enotnega univerzalnega pristopa, na drugi strani pa posledica obstoječe razdrobljenosti in razpada relativne enovitosti južnega in vzhodnega sosedstva.