ABSTRACT
The 1990s saw the EU’s relations with nonmember states around the Mediterranean basin absorbed into a new and comprehensive policy framework: the Euro–Mediterranean Partnership. This new package was based on the negotiation of new bilateral Euro–Mediterranean association agreements between the EU and the 12 “partners” – Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey – and the signing of a wideranging multilateral declaration and work programme, the Barcelona Process. The main aims of the new partnership were to foster “security and stability” in the Mediterranean by increasing the prosperity of the partner states and by enhancing regional cooperation at both governmental and societal levels.
