Ecuador is a country with a large cultural, ethnic, climatic and geographical diversity. With about 12.1 million people, according to the latest census of 2001, it is the second smallest Latin American country. Increasing poverty (from 3.5 to 5.3 million people during the period between the last...

November 1995 marked the starting point of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (the Barcelona Process), a wide framework of political, economic and cultural cooperation between the Member States of the European Union and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Basin countries. The recent...

November 1995 marked the starting point of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (the Barcelona Process), a wide framework of political, economic and cultural cooperation between the Member States of the European Union and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Basin countries. The recent...