EuroMeSCo

Network of independent institutes from the 35 member countries in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the European Union's comprehensive policy for its relations with the Southern Mediterranean region. EuroMeSCo functions both as an official confidence-building measure within the EMP and as a source of analytical expertise in the policy and security fields with which it is concerned.

EuroMeSCo seeks to construct relationships between Europe, the Maghrib and the Mashriq on a North-South and South-South basis which otherwise might not exist in order to widen the forum for debate on matters of mutual concern. Such issues are related to the EMP, and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), and the network provides a forum for debate of essential matters that might otherwise prove to be sensitive issues for governments within the EMP.

The network also seeks to establish a common vocabulary for policy and security issues in the region and thus contribute to the policy process whilst, at the same time, providing a mechanism by which the views of civil society within the Mediterranean can be represented to decision-makers.

HRIA activities

EuroMeSCo has made a framework for benchmarking progress in human rights and democratic development within the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.