EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP; STATE OF AFFAIRS AND KEY POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES

M. Kuiper and Dell'Aquila, C.

No 29122, Report Series from Agricultural Economics Research Institute

Abstract: This study draws on a body of existing literature to take stock of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), which focuses on establishing a Mediterranean Free Trade Area. Despite considerable scope for reducing barriers on Mediterranean trade, current agreements are limited to a quasi-unilateral reduction of trade barriers for manufactured products by the Mediterranean Partner Countries. Next to the limited scope of the current liberalisation achieved by the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, structural features of the MPCs limit the impact of the trade liberalisation on their economic growth. To promote stability and economic growth at the Southern borders of the EU, coherence of EU trade and foreign policy is called for.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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