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2008 – Euro Mediterranean year of Intercultural Dialogue
About the ALF» Key Dates

1972 Global Mediterranean Policy (GMP)            
1989 Madrid Summit (27/06)
1990  

Renewed Mediterranean Policy (PMR)

European Council, Dublin(26/06)

1993  

European Council, Brussels (29/10)

Signing of the Declaration of Principles  between the Government of Israel and the PLO (13/09)

1994 

European Council, Corfu (24-25/06)

European Council, Essen (30/11)

1995

European Council, Cannes (26-27/06)

First Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Foreign Ministers, Barcelona: Barcelona declaration (27-28/11).

1996

Regulation 1488/96 on financial and technical measures (MEDA) to accompany the reform of economic and social structures in the framework of the Euro‑Mediterranean partnership (23/07)

1997

Second Euro-Mediterranean Conferance of Foreign Ministers, Malta (15-16/04).

1998

Entry into force of the EU-Tunisia Association Agreement   (1/03)

First Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Forum (27-28/10)

1999

Third Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Foreign Ministers, Stuttgart (15-16/04)

2000

Entry into force of the EU-Morocco Association Agreement  (01/03)

Entry into force of the  EU-Israeli Association Agreement   (01/06)

European Council, Santa Maria da Feria: adoption of the European Union’s Common Strategy on the Mediterranean Region  (19-20/06)

Fourth Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Foreign Ministers, Marseilles (15-16/11)

Regulation 2698/2000 of the Council amending Regulation No. 1488/96 on financial and technical measures (MEDA) to accompany the reform of economic and social structures in the framework of the Euro‑Mediterranean partnership (27/11)

2001 

Second Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Forum  (8-9/02)

Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Foreign Ministers, Brussels   (5-6/11)

Entry into force of the EU-Algeria Association Agreement  (19/12)

Third Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Forum  (8-9/02)

2002

Fifth Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Foreign Ministers, Valencia: Valencia Action Plan (22-23/04)

Entry into force of the EU-Jordan  Association (01/05)

European Council, Copenhagen  (12-13/12)

2003

Entry into force of the the EU-Lebanon  Association Agreement (1/03)

Commission communication to the Council and the European Parliament "Wider Europe – Neighbourhood: A New Framework for Relations with our Eastern and Southern Neighbours" COM(2003)104 (11/03)

Euro-Mediterranean Mid-Term Conference od Foreign Ministers, Crete (26-27/05)

Fourth Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Forum  (17/06)

Commission Communication "Paving the Way for a New Neighbourhood Instrument" COM(2003)393 (01/07)

Fifth Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Forum (1/12)

Sixth Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Foreign Ministers, Naples (2-3/12)

2004

Inaugural session of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, Athens (22-23/03)

Euro-Mediterranean Mid-Term Conference of Foreign Ministers, Dublin (5-6/05)

Entry into force EU-Egypt Association Agreement (1/06)

Signing of the EU-Syrian Association Agreement (19/10)

Commission Communication "Commission proposal for a Regulation establishing a European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument", (October 2004)

Euro-Mediterranean Mid-Term Conference of Foreign Ministers, The Hague (29-30/11)

Commission Communication "Commission Proposals for Action Plans Under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)" (December 2004) 

2005

European Neighbourhood Policy Country Reports (02/03): Egypt; Lebanon

Commission Communication “Tenth Anniversary Of The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: A Work Programme To Meet The Challenges Of The Next Five Years”  (12/04)  

Seventh Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Foreign Ministers, Luxembourg (30-31/05)  


For more details see:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/euromed/news/memo04_276.htm

See the full text of the Barcelona Declaration at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/euromed/bd.htm