National audienceIn this communication, we provide an analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), based on 7 texts published by the European Commission and then by the European External Action Service between 2003 and 2013. The analysis of this corpus of texts by the methods of textual statistics brings a complementary perspective to the research works in the field of critical discourse analysis. Without formulating any hypothesis, we let emerge the contents of texts by a quantitative analysis of the vocabulary and the lexical fields which take shape during the studied decade. We paid a particular attention on the naming of the geographical entities in the manner of writing the policies of neighbourhood. This lexical analysis of th...