The Relationship Between the EU and the Mediterranean Countries
The Relationship Between the EU and the Mediterranean Countries

Summary/Abstract: The trade between the EU and the Mediterranean countries constitutes a special part of EU’s overall external trade. We will refer here at the MED 12 countries, namely: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Cyprus, Malta and Turkey. For MED 12 the main commercial partner is the EU, due to the fact that about half of their exports are going to EU and the same share of the region’s imports are coming from EU. The trade between the EU and the Mediterranean countries accounts for a much smaller share in EU’s total external trade, around 9% (1995), but from the developing trading partners MED 12 is the most important one for EU.

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