The world economy is increasingly dominated by two phenomena: on the one hand, globalisation, and on the other, regionalisation and integration.
The European Union is by far the major partner for a great number of countries in the southern and eastern Mediterranean, as much from the point of view of trade as passenger traffic.
The Mediterranean is one vector of flow of Euro-Mediterranean and transatlantic exchange. It is an interface between the countries located on its shores, a strategic platform and a significant force to be reckoned with for all the great powers.
Ten years after Dayton and the Serbia and Kosovo operations, the objectives of the international community do not appear to have been achieved, at least not fully.
