As world foreign direct investment flows in 2006 broke through the 4.5% threshold, the MEDA region for the first time secured a “normal” part of world FDI flows.
Aujourd’hui, la régionalisation est une tendance lourde accompagnant la mondialisation. Elle concerne toutes les régions du monde et, en particulier, l’Amérique du Sud et le monde arabe.
Although European businesses have demonstrated a clear interest in the Maghreb (particularly in 2006), no major developments have taken place.
In the early 2000s, the MEDA region, which includes the European Union’s Mediterranean partner countries did not feature on the global investment map.
There is no doubt that the task of improving the performance and rating of MPCs lies primarily at the national level.
Since the Lisbon Declaration, the production of knowledge has become a major concern for Mediterranean countries. This concern is growing deeper as the date approaches for the full constitution of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Zone.
For the first time, heads of state took tourism cooperation into consideration as a factor contributing to the advent of an area of joint economic development.
The agricultural and food issue is, in fact, decisive for the future of the Mediterranean Basin, as it is at the junction of politics, commerce and society.
The Maghreb countries are at a crossroads: they must decide whether to continue as before, playing the old game of the Nation-State closed in on itself, or on the contrary.