The Mediterranean Progressive Academy is hosting a three-day meeting in Barcelona (from 18 to 20 February) focused on identity, cooperation, and the future of the Euro-Mediterranean region. The main objective of the program is to commemorate 30 years of the Barcelona Declaration, while also analyzing dialogue and shared challenges within the current geopolitical context.
In the panel “What Unites Us in the Mediterranean?”, which took place on Wednesday, 18 February , Jusaima Moaid-azm Peregrina, a researcher at the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies and professor at the University of Granada, offered a review of the Barcelona Process 30 years after the 1995 Declaration. During her intervention, she explained the foundational ambition of promoting a Euro-Mediterranean space of peace, prosperity, and cooperation through three pillars (political-security, economic, and social-cultural) and its subsequent evolution with the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean as a more operational framework.
Moaid-azm’s intervention highlighted key achievements—such as the consolidation of a common language of cooperation, dialogue networks, and a sustained Euro-Mediterranean agenda—while also analysing structural limits that have hindered regional integration, such as the persistence of the socioeconomic gap, challenges in governance and stability, and the need to adopt an approach centered on civil society.
In 2025, the Euro-Arab Foundation also celebrated the 30th anniversary of its creation, a milestone that coincides with the three decades of the Barcelona Process analysed during the conference. Through its research and academic work, the institution continues to consolidate itself as a strategic bridge for peace and shared prosperity in the region.
