Mediterranean Progress?

Interview with Jan Techau
11.07.2008 | Deutsche Welle online

In an interview with Deutsche Welle Online, Jan Techau analyzed the upcoming founding of the new Union for the Mediterranean by the EU. Techau expressed his scepticism about the endeavour, pointing to fact that the new body’s predecessor, the EU’s Barcelona process, had failed mostly due to the reluctance of Mediterranean countries to embrace liberal economic and political reforms. Principally, however, the new approach seems to be an improvement as it replaces hard-to-implement macro-projects with smaller, more practical, and thus more feasible plans.

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