The EURO-MED, based on the Barcelona process which was launched in 1995, is a strategic partnership between the European Union and ten Mediterranean countries aimed at promoting peace and economic progress and developing social and cultural cooperation.
Conferences at the level of foreign ministers take place every 18 months, and the previous one was held in Luxembourg in May 2005.
On the margins of the conference, Grabar-Kitarovic met Tunisian Deputy Foreign Minister Abdelwaheb Abdallah, Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdelah Al-Khatib and Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammad Bedjaoui. She informed them about Croatia's progress towards full membership of the European Union and its foreign policy priorities.
Also discussed was the fight against corruption, ways of boosting trade, political views on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the European Union, and the pan-European system of diagonal cumulation of origin.