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The end of the Euro-Mediterranean vision

24/09/2009 By Kristina Kausch, Richard Youngs

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Relations between the European Union and North Africa have veered away from the political vision expounded under the Barcelona Process. The EU appears inattentive to the dynamics of change within North African societies.

Countries such as Spain and the UK have been overly passive in rescuing the Euro-Med vision from French diplomacy and the nature of relations between Europe and North Africa are increasingly out of sync with the changing international system.

This article forms part of a special edition of International Affairs on North Africa.

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Keywords

Barcelona Process Civil society Democracy promotion EU European Union North Africa Spain United Kingdom

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Bio author: Kristina Kausch

Kristina Kausch is a Researcher at FRIDE. She focuses on on European policies of democracy support in the European neighbourhood, in particular in the Southern Mediterranean. She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Göttingen. Prior to joining FRIDE in 2004, she worked for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) on programmes of democratic governance and institution-building.

Bio author: Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is Director General of FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities.