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Skhirat, Morocco. 4 November, 2015 The Secretary General of the UfM will participate in the first EBRD and CGEM business forum for the countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region – Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia. The meeting will take place in Skhirat, Morocco on 4 November 2015. This event will be held under the auspices of theRead more

Marseille,  4-7 November 2015 The 9th edition of the Mediterranean Economic Week will take place from Wednesday, 4 November to Saturday, 7 November 2015 at the Villa Méditerranée, in Marseille. This year’s edition will focus on “Cities and Territories, levers of economic development in Mediterranean”. Between 1970 and 2000, the urban population of Mediterranean countries grew from 154 millionRead more

Luxembourg,  26 October 2015 At existing growth rates, the MENA region will see at least 60 million new entrants to the labour market by 2025. Creating employment opportunities, in particular for young people, is thus a key priority for the Mediterranean countries’ governments and for their international partners. Actions to improve the entrepreneurship environment are particularly importantRead more

University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, 14-16 October 2015 Around the world far too many young people are not in employment, education or training (NEET). Roughly one third of the world’s youth are unemployed, looking for work or they are discouraged and therefore inactive. Unemployment rates among young people are particularly high in the Middle East andRead more

• The Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean attended the 12th Meeting of Foreign Ministers, hosted in Tangier by the Kingdom of Morocco as Co-President of the 5+5 Dialogue. • 100,000 young people are benefiting directly from 16 of the 33 UfM-labelled projects in a region with almost 30% youth unemployment.  • TheseRead more

UfM Headquarters, Barcelona, 5-6 October 2015 Innovation is at the heart of economic and social development as it helps improve productivity and competitiveness. The economies of the Mediterranean countries have made progress in developing innovation policy frameworks. Nonetheless, one of the remaining challenges is increasing the level of integration of SMEs in networks supporting theRead more

Brussels,  29 September 2015 For further information please contact Camilla Leonori: camilla.leonori@ufmsecretariat.orgRead more

UfM holds the Second Regional Workshop of the Mobile Finance Project to discuss on the effectiveness of alternative financial services distribution models based on mobile finance and branchless banking in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia.

UfM Headquarters in Barcelona, 7 September 2015 In the framework of the Mobile Finance project Promoting Financial Inclusion via Mobile Financial Services in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries, labelled by the Senior Officials of the Union for the Mediterranean on 2 June 2014, the UfM Secretariat is organising the Second Regional Workshop on Mobile FinancialRead more

Luxembourg holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU for the second half of 2015. It is hosting an Informal Meeting of EU Ministers for Employment, their Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) counterparts and key stakeholders to tackle youth unemployment, which is a major political, economic and social challenge in the region.
A Union for the Mediterranean Ministerial Meeting on Employment is expected to take place in 2016.