Culture and Community in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: a Roundtable on the Third Basket, Alexandria, 5-7 October 2003

Almost eight years into the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), social and cultural co-operation between the European Union and the 12 partner countries in the southern Mediterranean is still in its infancy. Although the third basket was originally considered as one of the main innovations within Euro-Mediterranean relations, its pitfalls prevail - a fact that is reflected in the lack of a common shared discourse within academic as well as practitioner circles.