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No Euro-Mediterranean community without peace

01-09-2009

A paper looking at the prospects for Euro-Mediterranean initiatives against the current troubled backdrop of the Middle East, and in particular the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is clear that the long-term objective of creating a Euro-Mediterranean Community will not be fulfilled without a lasting peace being established in the region. The authors put forward a set of proposals on how Europe should contribute to resolving the Middle East crisis – and in particular on how to take advantage of the window of opportunity afforded by the change in American policy that has followed the election of President Obama.

This is the first in the series, 'Ten papers for Barcelona 2010' addressing ten critical topics for Euro-Mediterranean relations published jointly by the Institute for Strategic Studies (EUISS) and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed). Their purpose is to formulate policy options on a set of issues which they consider central to achieving the aims stated in the 1995 Barcelona Declaration: building a common Euro-Mediterranean area of peace and stability, of shared prosperity, of common understanding and exchanges between civil societies, founded on the rule of law and the democratic development of all its members’ political systems.

The EUISS was created in January 2002 as a Paris-based autonomous agency of the European Union. The Institute’s core mission is to provide analyses and recommendations that can be of use and relevance to the formulation of EU policies. In carrying out that mission, it also acts as an interface between experts and decisionmakers at all levels. IEMeD is a think tank for the identification and interpretation of the challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean area and for the preparation of proposals to confront them. 
 
No Euro-Mediterranean community without peace
 


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