ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the main findings and recommendations to present a clear picture of the importance, the urgency and, above all, the feasibility of EU action in the field of Euro-Mediterranean security. This security environment demands a comprehensive approach: a permanent and structural effort at long-term stabilisation by preserving and strengthening those 'global public goods' that are vital to international stability: security, the rule of law, welfare, sustainable development, the environment. This can only be achieved through multilateral cooperation and partnership. The launching of the Partnership was possible precisely because of the positive spirit generated by the Oslo process - when this died, the spirit of cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership more or less died as well. In order to avoid the conflict in the Middle East from blocking the functioning of the Partnership, the two were in fact formally separated from the beginning, but practice has proved that this unrealistic separation cannot be maintained.
