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Southern Perceptions about the Union for the Mediterranean
25/06/2009
Author : Institute of Public Affairs (IPA - Poland)
By Ahmed Driss
 
With the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean, 2008 was the year of the big debate on the Mediterranean, its centrality and the complexity that characterizes the relations between its residents.

Indeed not since 1995 has the Mediterranean project been so euphoric. Until this time the atmosphere was rather tainted with gloom especially after the summit of ten years of Partnership; this summit almost heralded the end of a process that had suffered for a long time, according to its detractors, from several deficiencies.

The launch of the idea of a "Union" was, at first, a source of distrust and anxiety with regard to the future of the Process of Barcelona; the ‘Union’s’ evolution and its final adaptation to the Euro Mediterranean Partnership have in fact acted as a lifebuoy for the earlier initiatives.

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This policy paper was written as a part of the project: New EU Member States’ Positions regarding the Union for the Mediterranean, realized by the Institute of Public Affairs together with the Centre Études Méditerranéennes Internationales in the scope of EuroMeSCo Network
 
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