Apart from being a sound method of promoting EU interests in its most immediate neighbourhood, the motivations and objectives that prevailed in 1995 when the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership was launched were on the one hand core EU/universal ones (the full promotion of human dignity in a common environment of peace and shared prosperity) and in part more specific ones (driven by the political context, the main priority being the establishing of political stability in an area where conflicts and political gridlock had been looming or raging for decades).
Apart from being a sound method of promoting EU interests in its most immediate neighbourhood, the motivations and objectives that prevailed in 1995 when the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership was launched were on the one hand core EU/universal ones (the full promotion of human dignity in a common environment of peace and shared prosperity) and in part more specific ones (driven by the political context, the main priority being the establishing of political stability in an area where conflicts and political gridlock had been looming or raging for decades).