"The European Union identified one of its main challenges in foreign policy as strengthening cooperation with its neighbours, and more specifically with those of the South and the Arab-Muslim world. In this overall framework, MEDEA Institute’s role appears clear. While closely following the process prompted in Barcelona in 1995, which is constantly evolving, our purpose is to develop in Brussels and in the Mediterranean, an environment of knowledge and understanding of the realities, ideas and culture of our southern neighbours.
The latest events pertaining to the region give rise to many prejudices, worries and questions, intensifying the crucial importance of our mission. MEDEA Institute seeks to offer an alternative to the dramatic information spread by the media, by providing in depth reflection and by strengthening links and exchanges based on trust and mutual respect.
Through its manifold action, the Institute contributes on the one hand to valorising the experts who cultivate this understanding, and on the other hand to diffusing progressively this deep knowledge for the benefit of the general public."
"Message from the President," www.medea.be (accessed on Feb. 26, 2007)
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