MEDRESET Policy Recommendations

MEDREST Policy Recommendations ( January 2019)

As the Mediterranean is increasingly perceived as a space of disparity, division, and separation, the EU should press the reset button in Euro-Mediterranean relations by putting local democracy, human rights and social justice upfront, rather than security and stability. At the same time, what was rejected by the stakeholders is a “civilizing” rhetoric which presents democracy and human rights as European and the EU as an exporter of them, so denying local actors their agency.