Marseille – A one-day meeting of the ARLEM Commission for Sustainable Development (SUDEV) was held on 8 November 2010 at the Conseil regional Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur in Marseille, to present and discuss the “Draft Report on Local Water Management”, prepared by a sub-committee of SUDEV. Deputy Secretary General Rafiq Husseini was warmly welcomed by Mr. Michel Vauzelle, SUDEV co-chairman, Filippo Terruso and Santiago Mondragon Vial, both members of the President’s Cabinet, Committee of the Regions…. read more
Venice – The Forum was organized by CassaDepositi e Prestiti (CDP), in the context of the 2010 activities of the Long-Term Investors Club (LTIC) who promote investments…. read more
The world economic leaders of the Mediterranean region discussed the ways towards a better place of education…. read more
Barcelona – This conference was organized by Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii), a large industrial consortium launched in July 2009 aiming at facilitating and encouraging investments in the framework of the DESERTEC concept. Mediterranean renewable energy projects, in particular solar projects, were discussed with a particular focus on the financial tools required to make things happen…. read more
Cairo – UfMS Secretary General Ahmad Masa’deh hailed the outstanding efforts of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Economic, Financial and Social Affairs and Education during his address at the Committee’s meeting in Cairo on 22 October 2010 and calls for introducing the Mediterranean basin as a new competitive economic block…. read more
Naples – In the framework of the second National Congress of the Italian Accounting Experts,Senior Deputy Secretary General Dr. LinoCardarelli attended a seminar on “The Common Heritage of the Mediterranean” in the field, attended by over 3.000 European financial and accounting experts…. read more
Brussels – The Program on Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Natural and Man-made Disasters aims at developing further projects for civil protection (Tsunami alert, response to forest fire etc.) in the Mediterranean region, considering a deeper involvement of the Union for the Mediterranean…. read more
Cairo – “EUROMED: Which Infrastructures and how to finance them” is organized by the Italian-Egyptian Business Council…. read more
Amman – Secretary General Ahmad Masa’deh addressed the opening session of the Euro-Mediterranean University conference of Experts which was held in the Jordanian capital Amman on 2 October 2010 with the objective to launch the EMUNI initiative for the Mediterranean under the European Neighbourhood Partnership Instrument (ENPI)…. read more
Marseille – The participants, gathered during two days in the city hall of Marseille, stressed out the need for sustainable urban planning in the region and cooperation between urban planners and public actors in the framework of the Union for the Mediterranean in order to address the future challenges…. read more
