13-14 February 2019, Strasbourg. The Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Nasser Kamel, participated in the 6th Summit of Presidents of Parliament and the 15th Plenary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the UfM (PA-UfM), which took place in Strasbourg on the 13th and 14th February. The annual gathering of the 280 members of the Parliamentary Assembly, that marks the end of the European Parliament’s Presidency of the Bureau, focused its debates on the important topic of “the challenges of migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean”. European Parliament’s President Antonio Tajani, as well as EU Commissioner for… Lire la suite
Barcelona, 11 February. UfM Secretary General, Nasser Kamel, hosted today a discussion between Josep Borrell, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation of Spain, and 15 experts and researchers from different Euro-Mediterranean countries on the state of the region and its perspectives horizon 2030. Organized in collaboration with EuroMeSCo, the main network of research centres on politics and security in the Mediterranean, the round-table debate was moderated by Ambassador Senén Florensa, President of its General Assembly. The discussion was structured around four main issues, namely: the security situation in the MENA region; migration; the social contract in MENA economies; and… Lire la suite
La 3eme réunion des Directeurs Généraux de la Protection Civile de l’Union pour la Méditerranée (UpM) ont lancé le développement d’un plan d’action pour renforcer la coopération euro-méditerranéenne en matière de campagnes de prévention, de réponse aux urgences et de gestion des crises Par le biais d’un mécanisme commun de Protection Civile, les États membres de l’UpM pourraient jouer un rôle clé dans la coordination de réponses communes aux crises et coopérer en matière d’évaluation des risques, de prévention des catastrophes, de préparation et de planification 11 février 2019, Barcelone. Les Directeurs Généraux de la Protection Civile de chaque États-membres… Lire la suite
Monday 4 February 2019 – The Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, Nasser Kamel, attended this afternoon the signing ceremony of the declaration launching the #MedCooperationAlliance, a new strategy put in place by long-standing local and regional partners of the UfM to promote the sustainable and integrated territorial development of the Mediterranean basin. Signed by the regions of the Intermediterranean Commission of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR), the Euro-Région Pyrénées-Méditerranée, the Adriatic Ionian Euroregion and the networks of local authorities MedCities and Arco Latino, this declaration calls stakeholders active in the Euro-Mediterranean region to redouble their… Lire la suite
29-30 January 2019, Barcelona. The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean hosted this past 29 and 30 January the annual meeting of the UfM Energy Platforms in Barcelona, Spain. The UfM Energy Platforms are the only existing dialogue forum gathering all Euro-Mediterranean countries as well as the key stakeholders dealing with electricity markets, renewable energy, energy efficiency and gas in the Mediterranean region. The Observatoire Mediterranén de l’Energie presented the recently published the “Mediterranean Energy Perspectives 2018” that shows the current energy trends in the region, forecasting potential 2040 scenarios. Per capita energy demand in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean… Lire la suite
29 and 30 January 2019, Barcelona. A delegation of parliamentarians from the EPP Group composed of Andrey Kovatchev (Bulgaria), Santiago Fisas (Spain) and Francis Zammit Dimech (Malta) visited the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), in Barcelona, on 29-30 January, 2019. This visit is part of a series of discussions organized with parliamentarians from UfM Member-States aimed at presenting ongoing flagship projects and initiatives promoted by the organisation. The members of the European Parliament (MEPs) met with the UfM Secretary General Nasser Kamel and other UfM representatives to discuss how to strengthen synergies and partnerships to jointly tackle common challenges in… Lire la suite
31 January 2019, Brussels. UfM Secretary General Nasser Kamel met yesterday with the Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn, and conveyed his gratitude for the continuous support of the European Commission to the UfM…. Lire la suite
24 janvier 2019, Barcelone. Le Secrétaire Général de l’Union du Maghreb arabe (UMA), Taieb Baccouche, accompagné sa directrice de cabinet et des affaires politiques et de l’information, Besma Soudani Belhadj, ont visité pour la première fois le Secrétariat de l’Union pour la Méditerranée (UpM) à Barcelone et ils ont pu rencontrer son Secrétaire Général, Nasser Kamel. L’objectif de cette visite était d’initier et de structurer la future collaboration entre ces deux organisations. Les Secrétaires Généraux Kamel et Baccouche ont saisi l’occasion pour exposer les rôles respectifs des deux organisations et expliciter comment elles vont pouvoir créer des synergies aux profits… Lire la suite
22 January 2019 in Fes. The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the European Commission, in partnership with the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kingdom of Morocco and the Euro-Med University of Fes (UEMF), jointly organised, on the 22 of January 2019 in Fes, Morocco, a regional seminar on the last calls of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation (R&I) programme of the European Union (EU) specifically targeting the Euro-Mediterranean region…. Lire la suite
Nasser Kamel, Secrétaire Général de l’Union pour la Méditerranée, a participé à la 15e réunion des ministres des Affaires étrangères du dialogue 5 + 5 à La Valette, Malte. Les ministres ont affirmé la nécessité de renforcer la coopération dans un certain nombre de domaines, notamment le développement durable et les migrations, tout en mettant un accent particulier sur la jeunesse, qui représente le potentiel le plus important pour un avenir meilleur et un avantage net pour notre région. Les ministres ont salué le prochain sommet des chefs d’État et de gouvernement (Sommet des deux rives), qui se tiendra à… Lire la suite
