Aussi bien les pays mediterraneens, partenaires de la Communau
te, que les regions mediterraneennes des quatre pays de la Communaute, riverains de la Mediterranee (Espagne, France, Italie, Grece) ont une experience importante des relations de cooperation. C'est l'existence de ce potentiel d'experience qui a conduit la Commission europeenne, et en particulier le Commi
ssaire charge de la politique mediterraneenne, Monsieur Claude Cheysson, a apporter son concours a l
'organisation de ce colloque ...[+++] a Marseille, afin d'en degager des enseignements utiles.
Both the Community's Mediterranean partners countries and the Mediterranean parts of its four Mediterranean Member States (Spain, France, Italy, Greece) have a considerable store of experience of cooperation, and it is this which led the European Commission, and in particular its member with special responsibility for Mediterranean policy, Mr Claude Cheysson, to help in organizing this symposium in Marseille, in the hope that useful lessons will emerge for the more harmonious development of the Mediterranean region as a whole.