THE MEDITERRANEAN COMMUNITY AND THE EU: THE ITALIAN PERSPECTIVE

Year 2003, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 1 - 3, 01.07.2003

Franco Cardini

Abstract

The still too short life of the Mediterranean Forum of the European Community EUROMED has already proved that Europe is changing one of its earlier ways of matching political issues. This was the approach that consisted of considering itself just as a continental land and addressed its interests mostly towards the west-bound and the north-bound. It is possible to say, however, after the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the USSR and the start of a new world order dominated by just one nation - the US - that a fundamental change has taken place: Europe has ‘rediscovered’ its links with the East and the South, which is to say Asia and Africa.