Since the Lisbon Declaration, the production of knowledge has become a major concern for Mediterranean countries. This concern is growing deeper as the date approaches for the full constitution of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Zone.
For the first time, heads of state took tourism cooperation into consideration as a factor contributing to the advent of an area of joint economic development.
The agricultural and food issue is, in fact, decisive for the future of the Mediterranean Basin, as it is at the junction of politics, commerce and society.
The Maghreb countries are at a crossroads: they must decide whether to continue as before, playing the old game of the Nation-State closed in on itself, or on the contrary.
It only took four years – from 2002 to 2006 – for the Free Trade Agreement between Morocco and the US to be proposed (2002), negotiated (2003), signed (2004), ratified (2004) and enter into effect (2006).
For some twenty years now, the evolution of containerised maritime transport has allowed deployment of new container ports in the Mediterranean.
Over the past 25 years, the partner countries on the southern and northern shores of the Mediterranean Basin have benefited little from globalisation.
Experience throughout the world has proven that microfinance helps the poor to increase income, build their businesses, and secure their future by reducing their vulnerability to external shocks.
The Hong Kong agreements fix the international trade tendencies and, therefore, place a framework of reference on Euro-Mediterranean trade relations.
The most important economic piece of news of 2005 in the Mediterranean was about the great investments made by private multinational companies .