Glossary
MEDA: MEDA is the principal EU programme for implementing the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership with the countries of the Middle East.
Mediation: a process by which the parties, with the assistance of a neutral third party (the mediator), identify disputed issues, develop options, consider alternatives, and work to reach an agreement they can live with.
Arbitration: the most traditional form of private dispute resolution. A binding procedure in which a neutral person or a several-member panel, called an arbitrator or arbitration panel, considers the facts and arguments presented by the parties and renders a decision.
European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP): The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was developed in 2004, with the objective of avoiding the emergence of new dividing lines between the enlarged EU and its neighbours and instead strengthening the prosperity, stability, and security of all concerned. The European Neighbourhood Policy applies to the EU's immediate neighbours by land or sea: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, and Ukraine. Although Russia is also a neighbour of the EU, its relations with the EU are instead developed through a Strategic Partnership comprising four "common spaces."