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I voted for this excellent report.
As everyone knows, the main aim of MEDA, which, in 1995 simplified and combined a disparate series of instruments, is ‘to reform economic and social structures and mitigate any social or environmental consequences which may result from economic development’ in the Mediterranean basin, in three areas: 1. Strengthening political stability and democracy; 2. Creating a free trade area; 3. Attaching priority to the social and cultural spheres.
The MEDA programme has therefore become the main component of financial cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership (through non-refundable aid from the Commission or through other instruments coordinated with the EIB). The results achieved by the MEDA I programme and the first two years of MEDA II, however, are such as to indicate that this model of cooperation should be continued and even stepped up (as the rapporteur suggests), substantially for the same reasons that led in 2000 to this successful programme being extended and relaunched for five more years, as the best possible means of achieving the aims of successive European Councils – Lisbon (1992), Corfu (1994) and Essen (1994): to enhance the EU’s Mediterranean policy, to enable the Mediterranean Basin to become an area of cooperation guaranteeing peace, security ...
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