The UfM Trade and Investment Forum 2022 is the Forum’s fourth edition in four successive years, attesting to the emphasis that the UfM places on trade facilitation and investment promotion as pre-requisites of economic development and integration in the region. The Forum comes at a time when economic, political and humanitarian global disruptions are posingRead more
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Nicosia (Cyprus), 6 and 7 October 2022 – The Union for the Mediterranean in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Cyprus and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will organize a two-day UfM Conference on “enhancing MSMEs resilience in face of future shocks” in Nicosia (Cyprus) on 6 and 7Read more
UfM Trade and Investment Forum UfM Trade and Investment Forum Event Moderators Ceren Gokce Ceren Gokce is an economic policy and public sector advisor at GIZ. She is a local and regional economic development professional specializing in industry clusters, sustainable destination management, food systems and capacity building. Gokce lectures on the history of international developmentRead more
Over the past two years, since the outbreak of COVID-19 and the economic crisis it induced, we have become familar with the notion of “building back better”. Recovery plans building on this notion provide an opportunity to design and implement much needed reforms for sustainable economic growth and fairer societies. This report presents policy considerationsRead more
The 12th Ministerial Meeting of UfM Trade Ministers is due to be convened in the second half of 2023. 20 July 2022. The Member States of the Union for the Mediterranean convened today by videoconference for the third meeting of the UfM Regional Platform on Trade and Investment. They followed up on the planned workRead more
The four awarded projects benefitted 18K people in 7 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region, namely, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, and Tunisia Barcelona, 14 July 2022. As part of its regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UfM launched a Grant Scheme for Employment Promotion in 2020 aiming at improving the employment situation particularly those fromRead more
Closing Ceremony – UfM Grant Scheme for Employment Promotion: Regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic Economic Development and Employment 14 July 2022, Barcelona. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UfM started very early on to mobilize its resources, capacities, and partners to tackle the economic impact of the crisis. Acting upon this call andRead more
