Along with the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (hereafter EMP), which stemmed from it in the mid-nineties together with its financial instrument, the MEDA Programme, the launching of the Barcelona Process marked a turning-point in relations between the European Union and its southern neighbours and was intended as a framework for a concerted and mutually supportive development of the Mediterranean countries.
Along with the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (hereafter EMP), which stemmed from it in the mid-nineties together with its financial instrument, the MEDA Programme, the launching of the Barcelona Process marked a turning-point in relations between the European Union and its southern neighbours and was intended as a framework for a concerted and mutually supportive development of the Mediterranean countries.