The crisis of the Mohammed cartoons in the European Union and the Mediterranean: contexts, reactions and media

In September 2006, EuroMeSCo carried out a survey on the cartoon crisis in eighteen countries of the Euro-Mediterranean Association. This article contains the key findings highlighted by the report drawn up by the European Mediterranean Institute of Barcelona. The attitudes of these countries are described concerning various factors (government reaction, the role of the media, the reaction of foreign communities, political, religious, cultural and academic debates, the role of the European Union and of the Euro-Mediterranean Association, etc.)