EuroMed Forum New Topics
Outcome and Echo
of the Euro-Mediterranean Summit held in Barcelona 27-28 November 2005
The
Euro-Mediterranean summit has been concluded in Barcelona on Monday 28th
November, but most Middle-East leaders had chosen to stay away from
gathering where the EU was pushing for further measures to combat
terrorism and illegal immigration. For further information about the
summit and its' outcome we propose a survey of the different
press
articles written on the subject. Just follow the link!!
You can
also have access to The
Euromediterranean Summit
Final Documents:
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The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
marks its tenth anniversary with a major conference in Barcelona.
The conference
on
27-28 November 2005
takes place a decade after the launch of the “Barcelona
process”,
designed in 1995 to foster dialogue between European Union member-states
and countries on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean –
including the Arab states (among them the Palestinian National
Authority, but not Libya), Israel, Cyprus, and Turkey.
The key aim of
this new “Euro-Mediterranean Partnership” – as embodied in the
wide-ranging “Barcelona
Declaration”
the participants in the first conference committed themselves to – was
to promote democratisation, security and economic growth in the
countries to Europe’s south and east. The challenge the partnership
addressed was at least partly to demonstrate that the European Union
could act in a united and effective manner around the sea – the Romans’
mare nostrum (“our sea”) – that nurtured the historic cultures
that shaped modern Europe.
Euromed-Forum has tried to bring together
the key texts that will guide the ministerial deliberations and inform
the future development of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership itself. (Follow
the link)
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The
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, 10 years later:
Where are we now and where
are we going tomorrow?
Next month, the Euro Mediterranean Partnership
commonly referred to as the ‘Barcelona Process’ will
be celebrating 10 years of existence and as for all anniversaries, it is
time for evaluation, time to look back and see whether the results
achieved came along with the objectives already announced. Peace and
prosperity were the objectives of the Euro-Mediterranean partners 10
years ago. We do believe
that such targets take as much time to find as they do to live. In
order to get an evaluation perspective of the Barcelona process we
propose an article of Ms.Neila Akrimi on “The Euro-Mediterranean partnership: space of homogeneous
development in global perspective?”.
We
would like also to share some thought on priorities
for the years ahead of the Euro-Mediterranean relations as
presented by Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Commissioner for External Relations
& European Neighbourhood Policy.
Tenth
Anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership: A work program to
meet the challenges of the next five years. With a Review of the Barcelona
Process.
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Publications:
- New publications
by Dr. Bichara Khader
:
-"Evaluating
Euro-Mediterranean Relations"
by Stephen C. Calleya
-The Mediterranean
Programme of the Robert
Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European
University Institute (Florence, Italy) is pleased to announce its
recent
publications.
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The
European Neighbourhood Policy
The
concept of the European Neighbourhood Policy
(ENP)
recently set out by the EU is considered to be the new framework for
relations over the coming decade with the
Southern Mediterranean Non Member Countries. You will find in this web site the
documentation linked to this new concept, as well as useful
links. Some events had taken
place in order discuss about this new face in the EU’s external
policy. We invite you all to join our
Forum
in order to discuss these issues and to exchange ideas and opinions that
would lighten the turnout and challenges of this new policy.
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The Mediterranean: Cultural Identity
and Prospects for Intercultural Dialogue
The key word to help establish an area of prosperity and peace in the Mediterranean remains the
cultural dialogue. The 1995 Barcelona Declaration states the need, in chapter III, to develop a dialogue of cultures and civilisations within the framework of the Mediterranean societies. This is not something that can be easily or
quickly carried out. It requires preparation and determination to resolve the differences in our views on the Mediterranean. Thus the Euro-Mediterranean cultural programmes have been reinforced by the setting up of the
“Anna Lind
Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the dialogue between cultures”. The question is whether this new structure will respond to the need of an efficient cultural dialogue in the Mediterranean? How and to what extent is it able to fulfil the task of bridging the two regional cleavages between rich and poor and between the West and Islam thus urgent and long overdue in the Mediterranean?
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Globalisation and Europeanisation: The European Union as a Global Actor
At some point in the studies of world politics and international political economy we will confront two phenomena around which huge literatures have developed:
Globalisation
with a special focus on its' legal dimension
and
Europeanisation. EuroMed forum seeks better understanding of the relationship between these two concepts. It also tackles one of the most enduring question related to this broad issue: to what extent, and in what ways, can the EU act as a leader in the world politics?
Not surprisingly, any attempt to address this issue raises a series of knotty subsidiary problems. For one thing, neither ‘globalisation’ nor ‘europeanisation’ is susceptible to easy, non-contentious definition. Thus EuroMed Forum invites you for a working definition of the two key concepts. Then we will study a number of
ways in which the relationship might be thought
about. Identifying the interaction between these two phenomena reveals the need for analyzing the evolving role of the
EU as a global
actor.
We will be happy to receive your comments
on these issues. Your reactions will help us keep up the good work.
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The following events are
added to the list, for more details see the Events
page:
-
Training session on International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean
Area and the Enlarged European Union. Florence, 13-18 Decembre
2004.
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7th
Conference ECSA-World, Brussels, European Commission , 30 November-1st
December 2004.
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Florence
School on Euro-Mediterranean Migration and Development, which will
take place in Florence from 6 till 24 June 2005.
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