UCM | Proceso de Barcelona: Unión para el Mediterráneo

Learning Module

02	La Unión Europea y el Mediterráneo: II Aspectos Económicos

Academic Coordinator

Bichara Khader | Catholic University of Louvain

Abstract

The economic dimension of the euro-Mediterranean partnership and the Neighborhood Policy is central .The main objective of European policies is to help improving the macroeconomic situation of the partners and neighbors, in order to enhance their general stability, to spur their attractiveness for investments, to stabilize the youth and to reduce migration flows. The Instruments of these policies are the Meda programme, the Neighborhood financial instrument and Femip. The bet behind the centrality of economics in the relations between EU and its partners underpins the conviction that it commands social and political security.

Course Objectives

The main objectives of the course will be
- To present an overview of the economic situation of the Maghreb and Machrek states
- To highlight the various and sometimes dysfunctional strategies of development
- To introduce the first basket of the Barcelona Process
- To evaluate the achievements of European policies in terms of tariff barriers dismantlement, of liberalization, of privatization, and of the flows of investments.
- To analyze the upgrading policies of the administrative, agricultural, industrial and service sectors.
- And finally to explain why, until now, the prosperity gap between the Eu and its partners has not been bridged

Programmatic Contents

The contents are intimately linked to the objectives and they are conceived in such that the students end up with a global picture not only on the economies of the partners but also to the coherence of incoherence of European policies. Then the module will be composed of four parts:
01. Economic situation in the partner countries
02. European Economic assistance and European Economic policies with regard to these countries
03. Economic balance-sheet in all the aspects (transparency, accountability, attractivity, privatization , etc.)
04. What should be continued and improved.

Teaching Units »»»

2.1	Economies of the Maghreb and the Machrek (1995-2008)
2.2	European Partnership (Policies, Instruments)
2.3	Balance-sheet of achievements and shortcomings