European Union Initiatives Supporting the Countries of the Mediterranean Basin in Combating the COVID- 19 Pandemic

The outbreak of the COVID- 19 pandemic became the starting point for the development of international cooperation to strengthen the ability of states in order to counteract the health, social and economic consequences of this phe-nomenon. In the Mediterranean region, the European Union used this period to strengthen the scope and intensity of its activities aimed at the countries of the Global South, treating it as a way of strengthening its own position and at the same time supporting partner countries in the process of increasing the poten-tial for their stabilization and modernization processes. The aim of this chapter is, therefore, to answer the question as regards the scope, methods, and mech-anisms of cooperation among the countries of the Mediterranean region in the face of a new threat affecting all countries in the area to a similar extent.