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Meeting with Ada Colau: UfM paving the way to the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Process

Barcelona, 19 November 2019. UfM Secretary General, Nasser Kamel, was received on Tuesday 19 November 2019 by Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, host city of the UfM Secretariat. During their first meeting since her re-election last April, SG Kamel took the opportunity to commend Mayor Colau on her ambitious programmes for the city, ‎reiterating the importance of cities and local governments in pushing ‎forward inclusive and sustainable development agendas, localizing ‎the Sustainable Development Goals. Kamel further highlighted the UfM Secretariat readiness to further enhance its action at local level, notably to address more effectively the climate emergency faced across the… read more

From coordination to joint action: the UfM hosts the annual coordination meeting of regional organisations

The Union for the Mediterranean hosted the annual coordination meeting of regional organisations on 13 November 2019, and called for increased synergies to tackle the pressing challenges faced in the Euro-Mediterranean region, notably the climate emergency which disproportionately affects the area. Barcelona, 13 November 2019. The Union for the Mediterranean is an active member of the coordination group of intergovernmental organisations operating across the Euro-Mediterranean region. It hosted on Wednesday 13 November its 2019 Annual Meeting, with the aim of guaranteeing the complementarity of their work and the pursue of their mutual objectives with better results and greater impacts. Representatives… read more

UfM joins regional efforts to promote Blue Tourism in the Mediterranean Region

The UfM Secretary General, Nasser Kamel, participated in the XV Conference of the Mediterranean Commission of the European League for Economic Cooperation (ELEC) under the title “Promoting Blue Tourism in the Mediterranean”, which took place in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 30-31 October 2019.  Palma de Mallorca, 30-31 October 2019. The Conference on “Promoting Blue Tourism in the Mediterranean” brought together over 80 stakeholders from the Tourism and Blue Economy Sectors on both sides of the Euro-Mediterranean Region, presenting an occasion for exchanging views, ideas, best practices and success stories in the field. The discussions focused on the role of… read more

4th EU-Arab World Summit: reinforcing the strategic regional partnership

Athens, 29 October 2019. UfM Secretary General, Nasser Kamel, participated today in the 4th EU-Arab World Summit in Athens, held on 29-30 October under the title “A Strategic Partnership”. Established in 2016, the EU-Arab World Summit is an international forum that promotes economic and political dialogue between the EU and the Arab World. The aim of this is to promote the two regions’ common interests and values, focusing cooperatively on shared priorities to meet regional and global challenges. Based on the significant success of previous editions, the 4th EU-Arab World Summit focused this year on economic cooperation and investments, especially… read more

2019 OSCE Mediterranean Conference : Celebrating 25 years of the Mediterranean partnership framework for cooperation

Tirana, 24-25 October 2019. UfM Secretary General Nasser Kamel participated as a special speaker in the opening session of the 2019 OSCE Mediterranean Conference that was held in Tirana, Albania, on the 24 and 25 October, in the presence of chairman of the OSCE Mediterranean Contact Group, Acting Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania Gent Cakaj. The OSCE and its Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia) celebrated this year a 25th anniversary. During the 1994 Summit in Budapest, a new framework for cooperation was created which is known today as the Contact Group… read more

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The UfM and R20 join forces to scale up climate finance

The Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Nasser Kamel, and the Executive Director of the Regions of Climate Action (R20), Christophe Nuttall, signed a partnership agreement to promote climate finance opportunities, notably at the level of regional and local authorities and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with the help of private finance leveraged through public finance. Paris, le 24 October 2019. Paris, 24 October 2019. UfM Secretary General, Nasser Kamel, met today with the Executive Director of R20, Christophe Nuttall, on the occasion of the One Planet Summit dedicated to “Scaling up blended finance for low carbon and… read more

Fourth UfM Regional Forum: Paving the way forward

General info Previous editions Media Contact UfM Foreign Affairs Ministers call for greater efforts to foster regional integration and sustainable development Today, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) gathered in Barcelona for the 4th UfM Regional Forum. They set the regional priorities for the coming year and reaffirmed their strong commitment to Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and to the region’s inclusive and sustainable development. The UfM Regional Forum provided the occasion to present ground-breaking findings of the first-ever scientific report on climate and environmental change in the Mediterranean area. The Mediterranean region warms 20% faster than the rest… read more

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UfM conference takes place in Tallinn to strengthen digital transformation and digital skills for the future

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) builds on the Estonian experience to promote digital transformation across the Euro-Mediterranean region. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide spending on digital transformation technologies was estimated at $1.3 trillion in 2018, up 16.8% from 2017. Tallinn, 30 September 2019. Today’s UfM Conference on Digital Transformation and Digital Skills for the Future, which took place in the Estonian capital Tallinn, marked an important step towards the Union for the Mediterranean’s engagement with the rapidly shifting technological landscape whose character is essentially digital. The conference built on Estonia’s experience as a global digital leader… read more

The Union for the Mediterranean joins the international community in promoting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Fulfilling its role as observer, a delegation from the UfM headed by the UfM Secretary General has participated in the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 74). This edition marks the fourth participation of the UfM Secretariat at the UNGA. The UfM Secretary General held several bilateral meetings in the sidelines of the UNGA 74 with Ministers of Foreign Affairs from the UfM Region, as well as high-level representatives of UN agencies, partner institutions and international organizations, during which he reviewed the ongoing UfM efforts and explored pathways of future collaboration on promoting the achievement of the SDGs…. read more

Women at the heart of stability and development: the UfM at the Bled Strategic Forum 2019

3 September 2019 – Bled. In the framework of an official visit to Slovenia, UfM Secretary General Nasser Kamel was invited to address the 14th Bled Strategic Forum, a platform for high-level strategic dialogue among leaders from the private and public sectors on key issues of the 21st century. Held on 2-3 September 2019 under the title ‘(Re)sources of (In)stability’, this edition was dedicated to discussing the role of (re)sources regarding peace and security, sustainable development and economic progress. Secretary General Kamel took part of the panel discussion entitled ‘(Re)sources in Women’s Hands: Tapping the Potential’, moderated by the Slovenian… read more

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