European policy, mediterranean policy, ENP, UFM, EMP, EU, european union
The Euro-Mediterranean partnership (or the Barcelona Process) is an instrument of political dialogue created at the conference of foreign ministers in Barcelona on 27-28 November 1995. It includes the 25 member states of the European Union and 10 Southern and the Eastern Mediterranean states: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey, Libya and Mauritania attending conferences as an observer.
The Barcelona Declaration aims to turn the Mediterranean into a common area of peace, stability and prosperity through:
ï‚§ Strengthening political dialogue and security;
ï‚§ An economic and financial partnership;
ï‚§ And a social, cultural and human.
These are the 3 components of the Barcelona Process.
In November 2005, the Barcelona Conference II, aimed to reinvigorate the partnership. Hence the question: more than ten years after its launch, where are we the Euro-Mediterranean partnership now?
My problematic? To discuss on the current and future partnership forged by a Europe moving and whose expansion has proved a turning point.
While relations between EU and PM had gradually increased (I), we must ask whether the construction of new external relations of the EU, namely the launch of a European Neighborhood Policy and the Union for the Med, can deepen the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, and if so for what future? (II and III).
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