Trans-Mediterranean platform for democracy and citizenship

This brief article introduces the platform as the main recommendation of the international conference organized by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe in Marrakech (Morocco) on 23-24 September 2005. Among other goals of the meeting, its participants sought to determine the forms of partnership between the Council of Europe, the European Union and the Arab countries to reinforce democratic reform mechanisms in the region.(Original source: http://www.coe.int/t/e/north-south_centre/Resources_Centre/1_The_Interd…)