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The European Union has long been concerned with the economic development of theMaghreb and has encouraged close economic relations through preferential tradingregimes. The success of this policy is subject to debate, but in 1995 at theBarcelona Euro-Mediterranean conference, the EU changed tack by proposing aMediterranean free trade area with the objective of preparing the Maghrebcountries to deaÿ
