Starting in the early 1980s the majority of Mediterranean countries decided to take action towards regional cooperation in the area of transport. The transport sector should play an important role as a facilitator of goodoperations and development in this free-trade area and, by extension, of good regional relations. This paper is structured in three parts: The first part provides an overview of the progress of relations in the Mediterranean area, with the focus on the Euro-Mediterranean partnership and the transport sector. The second part addresses the current scenario of institutional cooperation in the transport sector and describes the four most noteworthy initiatives. The third section provides an overview of the measures and actions for regional rapprochement in the transport sector, as developed in the different Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and measures designed to facilitate transport. For the covering abstract see ITRD E141216.
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