Barcelona declaration	27-28 November 1995

The Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, held in Barcelona on 27-28 November 1995, marked the starting point of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Barcelona Process), a wide framework of political, economic and social relations between the Member States of the European Union and Partners of the Southern Mediterranean.

The Barcelona Process is a unique and ambitious initiative, which laid the foundations of a new regional relationship and which represents a turning point in Euro-Mediterranean relations. In the Barcelona Declaration signed in 1995 , the Euro-Mediterranean partners established the three main objectives of the Partnership:

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Preamble


- Political & security partnership: Establishing a common area of peace & stability

- Economic & financial partnership: Creating an area of shared prosperity

- Partnership in social, cultural and Human affairs: Developing human ressources, promoting understanding between cultures & exchanges between civil societies


Follow-up to the conference

Participants

Following Conferences

2nd Euromed Conference (FR)
Malta, 16/04/97

3rd Euromed Conference (FR)
Stuttgart, 15-16/04/99

4th Euromed Conference (FR)
Marseilles, 15-16/11/00

5th Euromed Conference
Valencia, 22-23/04/02

6th Euromed Conference
Naples 2-3/12/03

7th Euromed Conference
Luxembourg-Kiem, 30-31/05/2005