Online Course: Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED)

Syllabus of the eLearning Course (Subject): Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (European Union).

1. Introduction to the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED) - European Neighbourhood Policy (European Foreign Policy)
2. Barcelona Process. Union for the Mediterranean
3. Trade Relations between the European Union and the Southern Mediterranean countries
4. Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Zone
5. System of pan-Euro-Mediterranean cumulation of origin
6. Agadir Agreement
7. Partnership agreements with Egypt and Jordan

The objectives of the Online Course / Subject “Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED) of the EU” are the following:

1. To know the basics of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
2. To analyse trade relations and association agreements that the EU has with the Southern Mediterranean countries

Sample of the e-learning Course / Subject: Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED)

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Description of the Course / Subject (Online Learning): Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED) European Union

The objective of the Union for the Mediterranean (Barcelona Process) is to develop the economic integration and democratic reform across sixteen neighbours of the European Union in North Africa and the Middle East.

The members of the Union for the Mediterranean are the twenty-eight European Union member economies, Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Arab Republic of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey.

As we can see, all the countries, except Montenegro and Israel, has Muslim majorities.

The main objective of the partnership agreement is the creation of a deep Euro-Mediterranean Free-Trade Area, which aims at substantially liberalising bilateral trade between both the European Union and the Southern Mediterranean countries and Southern Mediterranean countries themselves.

International trade in goods:

1. European Union exports to the Southern Mediterranean region: Euros 119 billion
2. EU imports from the Southern Mediterranean region: Euros 105 billion
3. The European Union total foreign trade with the Southern Mediterranean countries was Euros 224 billion - some 10% of the total of the EU international trade

The European Union encourages the strengthening of trade relations between the Southern Mediterranean countries:

1. The Agadir Agreement between Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt (in force since 2007) remains open to other Arab Mediterranean countries
2. Israel and Jordan have signed a free trade agreement
3. The Arab Republic of Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia have signed bilateral Trade Agreements with Turkey

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED) belongs to the:

1. Islamic Civilisation
2. European Economic Area (Europe) of the Western Christian Civilisation

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