The Integration of the Mediterranean Neighbours Into the Eu Internal Market

ISBN-13: 9789067043137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 270 str.

Karolien Pieters

Opis

FOREWORD In Antiquity, the Mediterranean world was a common space of classical civili- tion. The Romans referred to the Mediterranean Sea as mare nostrum, or 'our sea'. In their minds, it did not so much geographically separate the northern and southern shores, but rather bound people and cultures together. It would not have struck them as remarkable that the greatest book inspired by the Sac of Rome in 410 was written by a bishop from the present-day Algeria, St. Augustine. Today, the gentle waves of the Mediterranean Sea no longer roll on the shores of one civilization. Centuries of divergent historic evolutions have resulted in a clearer conceptual demarcation of Europe on the northern shore and Africa on the southern one, with Asia starting at the eastern and northern shore. In the minds of some people, the Sea has even become a border protection for some, an obstacle for others. However, the geographical proximity is obviously still there. That is why it is important to stress the special relationship which continues to exist between the countries on the northern shore the large majority of which is now member of the European Union with the countries on the southern and eastern shores, culturally, commercially and politically."

Spis treści

General introduction.- The multilateral versus the unilateral dimension of the Euro-Med relationship and the impact on the Euro-Med integration.- Multilateral instruments for integration of the Mediterranean countries into the EU internal market under the EMP and ENP.- Bilateral EMP instruments for integration of the Mediterranean countries into the EU internal market.- Bilateral ENP instruments for the integration of the Mediterranean countries into the EU internal market.- The extent of integration of the Mediterranean countries into the EU internal market.- Exporting the EU internal market principles to the Mediterranean countries.- Summary.

Blurb

With a Foreword by Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council

The European Union’s neighbouring countries to the south and the east of the Mediterranean have never been able to establish a regional form of integration of their own. Instead, the Maghreb, Mashreq and Israel have always vied for a stake in the EU internal market. At the beginning of the European integration process, the Mediterranean neighbours were offered few economic advantages. Confronted with emerging trading powers such as China and Russia in the 1990s, the EU changed tack and sought increased levels of integration of the Mediterranean countries into its internal market.

This book offers the first comprehensive overview and analysis of policies and instruments employed to integrate the Mediterranean countries in the EU internal market. In particular, the author examines the Euro-Med Partnership, the European Neighbourhood Policy, the ‘Barcelona Process: the Union for the Mediterranean’, the Euro-Med Association Agreements, and the ENP Action Plans. Combined with a thorough analysis of the most relevant case law of the European Court of Justice concerning the Euro-Med movement of goods, services, capital and persons, the author establishes a complete and up-to-date state of the integration of the Mediterranean countries with respect to the four above-mentioned fundamental freedoms of the EU internal market.

The book will be an important resource and a tool for decision-makers, officials and academics involved in the external relations of the EU and the export of the internal market acquis.

Dr. KarolienPieters is a senior research fellow in EU law and a member of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague.