Eurabia conspiracy pins Europe’s demographic fears on 1970s oil-crisis diplomacy

Evidence

In Ye’or’s analysis, however, Eurabia is a consciously designed political project, whose seeds were sown in the European Community’s establishment, at the height of the 1973 oil crisis, of the Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) – a long-term programme initially conceived by France and intended to forge closer political, cultural and economic links between Europe and the Arab world. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 33

Categorization

• QUESTION: How much of the real Euro-Arab Dialogue (1973, French initiative) actually maps onto the conspiratorial account of it? Worth checking against primary sources.
• SEED: A piece on how ordinary diplomatic and economic institutions get retrospectively recast as secret civilizational plots.