La Politica Euromediterranea tra vecchi limiti e nuove ambizioni

Abstract

This article analyses the nature of the EU's actorness in the Mediterranean. In detail, tracing the main stages in the evolution of Euro-Mediterranean policy, this contribution examines the internal political and institutional constraints that have affected, and still affect, the EU's decision-making capacity in foreign policy, effectively relegating it to the role of a ‘generous but politically weak donor’. The article is organised as follows: 1. Introduction; 2. Euro-Mediterranean policy from 1957 to the present; 3. National interests and cleavages within the EU; 4. The institutional set-up and the principle of coherence; 5.