Brussels, 12/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Party of European Socialists (PES) has been holding a two-day conference in Naples since Wednesday 11 June, devoted to the future of Euro-Mediterranean relations. The president of the European Parliament group, Martin Schulz, said dialogue with the Mediterranean concerns the whole of Europe. The proposed Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) may, he said, be an excellent idea if it establishes a global European approach and therefore does not involve only the rim countries. In Mr Schulz's view, the EU institutions, the EU budget and member states must be taken into consideration as a whole. The group had adopted a declaration on 14 May, stressing that the process is not dead. It called for true reactivation of cooperation between the two shores of the Mediterranean on the basis of four requirements (EUROPE 9661): break with the security vision, control of internal policies (human rights), the creation of a Euro-Mediterranean area integrated into the world economy, and parity in the concept and functioning of structures to be created. (F.B./transl.jl)