Mediterranean region: common strategy of the European Council of 19 June 2000, Feira

The Council approved a report to the Gothenburg European Council on the implementation of the Common Strategy on the Mediterranean Region. This report set out to examine all the initiatives implemented under the Common Strategy in the context of the priorities of the French and Swedish Presidencies. The priorities of these successive presidencies were as follows: - to reinvigorate the Barcelona Process; - to strengthen the political and security-related dialogue; - to establish and develop a dynamic as well as human economic and financial partnership; - to promote cooperation in the JHA area as well as in social, cultural and human affairs; - to ensure that the EU assumed its rightful role within the Middle East Peace Process.