In September, CASE and CEPS experts submitted the final report “Economic Integration in the Euro‐Mediterranean Region” to DG TRADE, concluding the year long EUROMED project. The study provided a short overview of the Euro‐Mediterranean trade relations in the context of the new recent developments of the Barcelona Process. It analyzed all existing regional integration agreements between the North and South , EU‐MED, and within the Mediterranean. The report recommends that in order to significantly move forward the EuroMed Free Trade Agreement and advance the integration process, the region must work to reinforce the network of free trade agreements, promote a Euro‐Med trade and investment facilitation mechanism, and enhance efforts to deepen existing integration. Conducted by a consortium of CASE and the Center for European Policy Studies, the Trade and Economic Integration in the Euro‐Mediterranean Region (EUROMED) study evaluated the effects of the current Euro‐Mediterranean Free Trade Agreement in order to assist policy makers in defining the next steps in the Euro‐Mediterranean Road map until 2010 and beyond. The project focused primarily on integration with Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. CASE experts and Fellows, Maryla Maliszewska and Dr Luc De Wulf, headed the joint team in the project and ensured the overall coordination of the report.

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