The Challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation under the prism of international law

The law of development cooperation is a very fragmented legal phenomenon, since it is articulated on different levels. It is also an interdependent and cross-cutting discipline that affects several sectors of international law, in particular concerning international economic law, environmental law and the protection of the rights of the individual. In addition, it also touches on areas other than law, such as technological innovation, ecology, pollution, health issues, sociology, zootechnics, and it is therefore necessary to make a coordinated effort among all the different issues and tensions that are at stake.The major challenge that development cooperation poses is therefore very complex, and it can be summed up precisely by the attempt (yet again) at finding a common thread in a such a vast, evanescent and fragmented theme.