eng More than cheap talk? Euro-Mediterranean cooperation on human rights and democracy van Hüllen, Vera Institut Universitari d'Estudis Europeus. Observatori de Política Exterior Europea Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona info:eu-repo/semantics/report 2011 Drets humans -- Mediterrània (Regió) http://ddd.uab.cat/record/77378 oai:www.recercat.cat:2072/169878 oai:ddd.uab.cat:77378 Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús de Creative Commons, amb la qual es permet copiar, distribuir i comunicar públicament l'obra sempre que se'n citin l'autor original, la universitat i l'institut i no se'n faci cap ús comercial ni obra derivada, tal com queda estipulat en la llicència d'ús http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/es/ Despite the EU’s democracy promotion efforts and a joint commitment to democracy and human rights in the EMP, there are no signs of convergence towards the liberal democratic model advocated by the EU. However, the scope and intensity of multilateral, transnational, and bilateral cooperation have steadily increased across the region since the mid 1990s. Cooperation in the field of democracy promotion is marked by strong dynamics of sectoral, normative, and geographical differentiation, but it is clearly situated in a regional and highly standardised framework. While policy or polity convergence seems unlikely in the short or medium term, democracy and human rights are firmly established on a joint regional agenda