Author: George Joffe Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000949869 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 296
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The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Initiative, launched by the Barcelona Conference in 1995, is the most ambitious project to date directed at comprehensive prosperity and security in the Mediterranean region. Yet the assumptions on which it is based are untried and untested. This study seeks to analyse what they are and to draw some conclusions as to the potential of the Initiative for success by comparing it with other experiences of regional develoment.
Author: Richard Gillespie Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135253897 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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Established in 1995, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership aims to create a free trade area including 30 countries and 800 million people by early in the 21st century. This book offers an assessment of the Partnership and its aims.
Author: George Joffe Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000943224 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Initiative, launched by the Barcelona Conference in 1995, is the most ambitious project to date directed at comprehensive prosperity and security in the Mediterranean region. Yet the assumptions on which it is based are untried and untested. This study seeks to analyse what they are and to draw some conclusions as to the potential of the Initiative for success by comparing it with other experiences of regional develoment.
Author: Andreas Kern Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Drawing on the idea of the European Union (EU) representing a natural 'anchor' for macroeconomic policy measures, this article assess the current and upcoming challenges in terms of growth and labour markets and the finance and growth nexus in the region. The structural problems concerning financial intermediation in the region turn out to be one of the major impediments for further economic development. From a political economy point of view, Mediterranean Partner Country (MPC) governments try to maximize short-run pay-offs in order to sustain political support and to trade these financial returns against a minimum of policy reform. The EU, on the other side of the bargaining table, tries to reap the benefits from policy reform, whereas its willingness to fund these compensation schemes can be assumed to be limited. Given these trade-off rationales on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea, both actors free-ride where possible which leads to suboptimal results. Therefore, this ostensible economic problem is analysed in its political economy context in order to suggest a macroeconomic co-operation scheme that explicitly takes into account political constraints and institutional deadlocks, hampering the development of a deeper economic co-operation within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) framework.
Author: Fondation de Malte Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291629572 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 118
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in the North African Arab world, democracy has been trying to sprout serenely through real parliaments. Some, if not all of them, have been working first and foremost as constituent assemblies, formulating constitutions where, in theory laced by hope, the absolutist conditions enjoyed only by the dictators would be forever abolished.In such a setting, the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly holds a privileged, if highly responsible, position both as a model of democratic governance as well as a gathering place where states are encouraged to emulate the more 'democratic' among them. Speakers/Presidents of the nascent and the older Parliaments could galvanise this institution to take a major role in the Union for the Mediterranean, so that parliamentary democracy is seen as a real dialogic instrument for peace. To that goal this TELOS is dedicated.
Author: Andreas Jacobs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 138
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This Discussion Paper contains interventions and statements made during the conference Euro-Mediterranean partnership: Beyond the Iraq crisis organised by the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) on October 14 and 15, 2003 in Bonn. This IV. Mediterranean Forum was part of a lar-ger project of co-operation dealing with the future of Euro-Mediterranean relations organized by ZEI and the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in cooperation with the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission EuroMesco. The intention of both institutions is to intensify the dialogue between academics and politicians from both sides of the Mediterranean in order to create some form of collective identity which in the long run may help to ease existing differences and misperceptions.
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