Abstract

The European Union has opened a new stage in Euro-Mediterranean Regionalism (EMR) with the signature of free-trade agreements with several Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries in the hope to stimulate their economic development. The European Union is simultaneously widening to Eastern Europe and signing or negotiating free-trade agreements with Mexico and Mercosur. EMR is hence likely to merge into an all-out free-trade, unless rapidly reinforced. Should it be reinforced, which strategies would then be conceivable?