1. Europe and the Mediterranean: The Barcelona Process Five Years On
- Author:
- George Joffé
- Publication Date:
- 08-2000
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Chatham House
- Abstract:
- In November 1995, the European Union signed a wide-ranging declaration with the twelve littoral states of the South Mediterranean at the end of a major conference in Barcelona. The declaration outlined an agreed policy for future relations between the EU and its Mediterranean partners which sought to create a zone of shared stability, prosperity and peace. This policy is designed to condition relations throughout the Mediterranean on a new basis of partial economic integration and cooperation over mutual security issues, together with support for regional political, cultural and social development. It has extremely ambitious objectives and represents a new departure for the European Union, although the means proposed to achieve it have been modest. Now, almost five years after its inception, it is appropriate to consider to what degree it has begun to realize the objectives it set for itself, given the fact that they should be achieved by the year 2010.
- Topic:
- Security and International Cooperation
- Political Geography:
- Europe, North Africa, and Barcelona