The Mediterranean programmes of the EC's new Mediterranean policy

Abstract

The bulk of the information in this document is not extracted from any comprehensive literature as it does not appear in the official EC documents which the European Documentation Centre receives, but is the result of piecemeal putting together of written material (produced by the relevant _Directorates Generales of the Commission and the programme committees) and to a large extent oral information, obtained through fieldwork and interviews. Special thanks go therefore to all the people who have repeatedly taken time to talk to me and who stood my inquisitive questions: Agnes Borg of the Malta EU-Delegation, Tarcisio Zammit of the EU Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Leslie Agius of the University's International Office, Dorothy Calleja, Bernard Agius and Catherine Saliba of the Malta Export Trade Corporation (METCO), and a number of academics of Malta University who are involved in MedCampus projects, and others. I am particularly grateful to Tarcisio Zammit whose careful scrutiny of the final draft was very helpful. Thanks are also due to my colleagues at the European Documentation and Research Centre, Peter Xuereb and Roderick Pace, for their comments and support, and to my husband Paul who is a source of encouragement and motivation. Although every effort has been made to screen the sources of information for credibility, the strict accuracy of each and every piece of information cannot be absolutely guaranteed. This paper is a snapshot of the picture as on 13 April 19941 and the reader will need to bear in mind that the topic of this paper is subject to continuous review and development. [excerpt]