Les difficultés de l'intégration économique régionale des pays maghrébins

Regional economic integration is based on two pillars: Economic, with the intensification of trade flows in the context of regionalisation of trade. Political, with the establishment of inter-state relations under an institutional regionalism. Thus, for the case of Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia). We consider a twofold paradox: the first one concerns the political regionalism without the regionalization of Intra-Maghreb trade. The second one is about the regionalization without Euro-Maghreb regionalism. After having recalled the difference between regionalism and regionalization, we emphasize a weak form of regionalization of the economic Maghreb area which is associated to several attempts of political regionalism. Therefore, we analyze the new European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which is developed in the wake of the Arab Spring. In other words, a new strategy wavers between the regional integration of the Maghreb bloc against a differentiation of each of the Maghreb countries.