The Euro-Mediterranean Trade and Investment Facilitation Mechanism: Training Workshop for Technical Focal Points aims to facilitate closer economic ties between the EU and the Southern Mediterranean countries…. read more
Barcelona, 13 November 2014. The UfM-labelled project Governance & Financing for the Mediterranean Water Sector successfully launched the national policy dialogue in Palestine — the first country to enter the second phase — during a first consultation workshop in Rammallah on 13 November. Officially launched in May 2013, this regional project is jointly implemented by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean(GWP-Med). Its core objective is to relieve key governance bottlenecks to mobilising financing through public private partnerships (PPP) in the Mediterranean water sector and to support the development of consensual action plans based on international good… read more
• The Senior Officials of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) member states met for the sixth time in the year 2014 in Barcelona. Five new projects promoting young people’s employability, job opportunities, entrepreneurship, urban sustainable development and water management transparency were approved. • The UfM Senior Officials approved unanimously the renewal of the mandate of Fathallah Sijilmassi as Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean for a second mandate of three years…. read more
“Coproduction is a real window of opportunities that can be opened in order to take a step forward towards greater economic regional integration in the Mediterranean”, underlined UfM Deputy Secretary General for Business Development, Claudio Cortese, during the EMCC Forum…. read more
The Union for the Mediterranean presented its strategy for establishing a reinforced regional climate change cooperation framework in the Mediterranean region…. read more
Deputy Secretary General Naser Tahboub stresses the UfM Secretariat’s commitment to fulfil its mandate in bringing together all relevant actors and to serve as a multi-stakeholders platform to boost the environmental agenda… read more
“Gender equality has to be at the heart of the global agenda of human rights. Equal rights between men and women and elimination of all forms of gender-based discrimination constitute an essential precondition for advancing human rights achievements”, stated UfM Deputy Secretary General Delphine Borione…. read more
In the framework of the Italian EU Presidency in the second semester of 2014, the Italian Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Forestry held the Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Agriculture in Palermo, Sicily on 28 November 2014…. read more
• MedReg is the Mediterranean’s only organisation of independent public authorities that is committed to creating a common regulatory framework for electricity and gas, to the benefit of consumers in 21 countries. • MedReg’s Barcelona Forum offers concrete and practical proposals for better energy regulation in the Mediterranean in order to promote enhanced infrastructure investment…. read more
Held in Berlin, the Conference on a new European Neighbourhood Policy discussed the expectations of the European Union and its Neighbours for prosperity, peace and partnership, assessed the related opportunities and challenges and sought ways to translate expectations into policy…. read more
