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In 2007, the European Neighborhood Policy reached a stage of consolidation. Key aspects such as stream lining of incentives including regional cooperation have been enhanced, while foreign policy cooperation is still weak. Overall, the ENP lacks a long term strategy and coherent political support from member states. Russia quite successfully exploits the inconsistent positions of EU member states. The United States uphold their strategic vision of the wider Europe –whole and free and probably integrated – viewing the ENP at best as the antechamber of enlargement.Barbara Lippert, deputy executive director of the Institut fur Europaeische Politik (Berlin), studies the enlargement and neighboring issues within the program «Dialog Europa der Otto-Wolff Stiftung».