A matrix of cultures of openness, a sea of communication of ideas and a place where knowledge mingles, a centre of gravity and tension of our modernity, the Mediterranean is a singular region of crossed thinking. At the time when an economic union is being created for the Mediterranean, the idea is to question the meeting points between East andWest, within this living crossroad of civilisations. date and participants to be announced at the beginning of July in the Spectator's Guide The meetings of the first four years (2004-2007) have been brought together in a work titled Le Théâtre des idées, 50 thinkers to understand the 21st century, published by Flammarion éditions (2008).