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One year ago the negotiations between Tunisia and the European Union about a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement (DCFTA) had started in Tunis. Experts from both sides of the Mediterranean accepted to contribute to this book in order to foster the public debate in the North-African countries by informing actors of the civil society about the risks of this new generation of free trade agreements of the EU for the respective countries and their population. In fact, by analyzing the impact of the structural adjustment programs of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria since the late 1980s followed up by the EU‚Äôs free trade policy, the authors seriously doubt about the positive effects on development and prosperity promised by the promotors of free trade. They underline, on the contrary, that it is the EU which profits from the asymmetric power-relations in order to pursue its economic and especially its security interests related to “illegal migration”. Publi√© un an apr√®s le d√©but des n√©gociations sur l‚ÄôAccord de libre √©change complet et approfondi (ALECA) entre la Tunisie et l‚ÄôUnion europ√©enne, cet ouvrage veut contribuer au d√©bat public dans les pays concern√©s et alerter les acteurs de la soci√©t√© civile sur les risques que comporte cette nouvelle g√©n√©ration des accords de libre-√©change de l‚ÄôUE. Les experts nord-africains et europ√©ens r√©unis pour d√©battre des enjeux de la politique √©conomique de l‚ÄôUE vis-√†-vis des pays de l‚ÄôAfrique du Nord mettent s√©rieusement en cause la promesse de d√©veloppement et de prosp√©rit√© du libre-√©change. Analysant l‚Äôimpact de cette politique entam√©e par la Banque mondiale et le FMI depuis les ann√©es 1980 en Tunisie, en Alg√©rie et au Maroc et poursuivie par l‚ÄôUE, ils soulignent au contraire que l‚ÄôUE profite de l‚Äôasym√©trie des relations de pouvoir pour poursuivre ses int√©r√™ts √©conomiques et s√©curitaires li√©s √† la ¬´ migration ill√©gale ¬ª.