]]>http://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union2008-11-20T17:32:17ZEMWIS Technical UnitEuro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sectorInternational portalenEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/comment-construire-lunion-mediterraneennecomment-construire-lunion-mediterraneennecomment-construire-lunion-mediterraneennehttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/comment-construire-lunion-mediterraneenne2008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenEMWIS Technical UnitTexttext/htmlEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/20071205_rapport_assemblee_nationale.pdf20071205_rapport_assemblee_nationale.pdf20071205_rapport_assemblee_nationale.pdfhttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/20071205_rapport_assemblee_nationale.pdf2008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenTextapplicationEMWIS Technical UnitEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/lassemblee-parlementaire-de-la-mediterraneelassemblee-parlementaire-de-la-mediterraneelassemblee-parlementaire-de-la-mediterraneehttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/lassemblee-parlementaire-de-la-mediterranee2008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenEMWIS Technical UnitTexttext/htmlEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/lunion-mediterraneennelunion-mediterraneennelunion-mediterraneennehttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/lunion-mediterraneenne2008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenEMWIS Technical UnitTexttext/htmlEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews037990The Mediterranean Union is a union of projectsThe Mediterranean Union is a union of projectshttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews0379902008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenFranceMediterranean-UnionTexttext/htmlFMESEMWIS Technical Unitinitiatives/mediterranean-unionPOLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENTMediterranean-UnionInbriefhttp://www.fmes-france.net/article.php3?id_article=866http://www.fmes-france.net/article.php3?id_article=8662008-01-10T00:00:00Z2008-09-02T18:05:52Zhttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/la-france-presente-son-projet-dunion-de-lala-france-presente-son-projet-dunion-de-lala-france-presente-son-projet-dunion-de-lahttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/la-france-presente-son-projet-dunion-de-la2008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenEMWIS Technical UnitTexttext/htmlEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/leau-au-coeur-de-lunion-mediterraneenneleau-au-coeur-de-lunion-mediterraneenneleau-au-coeur-de-lunion-mediterraneennehttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/leau-au-coeur-de-lunion-mediterraneenne2008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenEMWIS Technical UnitTexttext/htmlEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/rapport-du-groupe-dexperts-reuni-par-linstitut-derapport-du-groupe-dexperts-reuni-par-linstitut-derapport-du-groupe-dexperts-reuni-par-linstitut-dehttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/rapport-du-groupe-dexperts-reuni-par-linstitut-de2008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenEMWIS Technical UnitTexttext/htmlEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/RAPPT_UM_071105_fr.pdfReport of the expert group convened by the Mediterranean Institute on the Mediterranean Union projectReport of the expert group convened by the Mediterranean Institute on the Mediterranean Union projecthttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/RAPPT_UM_071105_fr.pdf2008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenMediterranean UnionTextapplicationEMWIS Technical UnitEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews587442snews587442snews587442http://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews5874422008-01-10T00:00:00ZjauadenFranceSpainItalyTexttext/htmlEMWIS Technical Unitinitiatives/mediterranean-unionPOLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENTInbriefhttp://www.fmes-france.net/article.php3?id_article=8542008-01-10T00:00:00Z2008-09-02T18:05:52Zhttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/mediterranean-unionA Mediterranean Union?by NYkrinDC]]>A Mediterranean Union?http://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/mediterranean-union2008-01-14T00:00:00Zby NYkrinDC]]>jauadenEMWIS Technical UnitTexttext/htmlEMWIS Technical Unithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews854329France, Italy, Spain Announce Mediterranean Union SummitFrance, Italy and Spain united behind a
planned Mediterranean Union on last December 20th, announcing a July summit
in Paris of the countries bordering the sea.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the July 13 summit at a joint
news conference in Rome with the Italian and Spanish prime ministers, Romano
Prodi and Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
The three leaders earlier discussed the plan to establish an E.U.-type
union of the zone in talks in the Italian capital.
"Convinced that the Mediterranean, crucible of culture and civilization,
should resume its role as a zone of peace, prosperity and tolerance," the
three leaders said they had met to "think about the broad outlines of a
planned union for the Mediterranean."
The bloc "would have a mission to reunite Europe and Africa around the
countries along the Mediterranean rim and to set up a partnership on an
equal footing between the countries" north and south of the sea, they
said.
"The added value of the Mediterranean Union should reside first in the
political boost it should give to cooperation around the Mediterranean and
the mobilization of civil societies, businesses, local communities,
associations and NGOs (non-governmental organizations)," the statement
said.
The Paris summit will precede by a day an E.U. summit on July 14 in
Brussels.
The Mediterranean Union will focus on "peace, development and respect for
the environment," Sarkozy said separately. "It's a great dream, a great
vision, which I'm sure can be realized. We three have decided that this will
be a united Mediterranean, a war against despair."
Sarkozy advocates the grouping partly as an alternative to Turkish
membership of the European Union. Italy favors Ankara's entry into the
E.U.
The plan also comes against the backdrop of attacks in Algeria, and other
north African states on the Mediterranean, by the group calling itself
al-Qaida's Branch in the Islamic Maghreb.
]]>France, Italy, Spain Announce Mediterranean Union Summithttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews8543292008-01-14T00:00:00ZFrance, Italy and Spain united behind a
planned Mediterranean Union on last December 20th, announcing a July summit
in Paris of the countries bordering the sea.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the July 13 summit at a joint
news conference in Rome with the Italian and Spanish prime ministers, Romano
Prodi and Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
The three leaders earlier discussed the plan to establish an E.U.-type
union of the zone in talks in the Italian capital.
"Convinced that the Mediterranean, crucible of culture and civilization,
should resume its role as a zone of peace, prosperity and tolerance," the
three leaders said they had met to "think about the broad outlines of a
planned union for the Mediterranean."
The bloc "would have a mission to reunite Europe and Africa around the
countries along the Mediterranean rim and to set up a partnership on an
equal footing between the countries" north and south of the sea, they
said.
"The added value of the Mediterranean Union should reside first in the
political boost it should give to cooperation around the Mediterranean and
the mobilization of civil societies, businesses, local communities,
associations and NGOs (non-governmental organizations)," the statement
said.
The Paris summit will precede by a day an E.U. summit on July 14 in
Brussels.
The Mediterranean Union will focus on "peace, development and respect for
the environment," Sarkozy said separately. "It's a great dream, a great
vision, which I'm sure can be realized. We three have decided that this will
be a united Mediterranean, a war against despair."
Sarkozy advocates the grouping partly as an alternative to Turkish
membership of the European Union. Italy favors Ankara's entry into the
E.U.
The plan also comes against the backdrop of attacks in Algeria, and other
north African states on the Mediterranean, by the group calling itself
al-Qaida's Branch in the Islamic Maghreb.
]]>jauadenFranceItalySpainMediterranean-UnionTexttext/htmlEasybourse.com - ROME (AFP)/ Dowjones Business NewsEMWIS Technical Unitinitiatives/mediterranean-union/snews587442POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENTMediterranean-UnionDowjones Business NewsInbriefhttp://www.easybourse.com/bourse-actualite/marches/france-italy-spain-announce-mediterranean-union-summit-363004http://www.easybourse.com/bourse-actualite/marches/france-italy-spain-announce-mediterranean-union-summit-3630042008-01-14T00:00:00Z2008-09-02T18:05:52Zhttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews829431The Rome call for an Union of the Mediterranean - 20 December 2007
Convinced that the Mediterranean, melting pot of culture and civilisation,
must recover its role as an area of peace, prosperity, tolerance, the
President of the French Republic, the President of the Council of Ministers
of Italy and the President of the Government of Spain met in Rome on
December 20, 2007 to think together about the main lines of the projected
Union for the Mediterranean. The Union for the Mediterranean will aim at
linking Europe and Africa around the countries on the Mediterranean and at
creating a equal footing partnership between the countries of the
Mediterranean basin.
The added value of the Union for the Mediterranean should lie initially in
the political dash it should provide to the Mediterranean co-operation and
in the mobilisation of the civil society, the enterprises, the local
communities, the associations and ONGs.
The Union for the Mediterranean is intended to become the heart and the
engine of co-operation in the Mediterranean and for the Mediterranean. It
should aim at making clearer and visible the actions that the various
institutions develop in favour of the Mediterranean. The Union should be
founded on the principle of co-operation and not on that of
integration.
For this purpose, they agreed to invite the Heads of State and Government of
the countries on the Mediterranean to meet with the European Union countries
on July 14 in Paris to define their common vision. This summit will be
preceded by a meeting of the bordering countries on July 13. It should
define the principles and the organisation of the Union for the
Mediterranean with the objective of implementing an approach based on
concrete projects and the recognition of a common destiny among all the
bordering countries and with the European Union.
In the coming months and until the summit, France, Spain and Italy will
start the preliminary work in close consultation with the countries invited
to participate. The purpose of this work will be to identify the fields of
priority co-operation, the most adapted projects, the study of their
feasibility, the sources of funding and to consider the list of the
stakeholders wishing to commit themselves in each concrete project.
The Union is not intended to replace the procedures of co-operation and
dialogue already linking the countries of the Mediterranean, but to
supplement them, and to give them an additional momentum, in a spirit of
complementarity and co-operation with all the existing institutions.
Therefore, the Barcelona process and the European neighbourhood policy will
remain central in the partnership between the European Union as a whole and
its partners of the Mediterranean. The Union for the Mediterranean will
interfere neither in the process of stabilisation and association for the
countries concerned, nor in the process of negotiation in progress between
the European Union and Croatia, on the one hand, between the European Union
and Turkey, on the other hand. ]]>The Rome call for an Union of the Mediterranean - 20 December 2007http://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews8294312008-01-17T00:00:00Z
Convinced that the Mediterranean, melting pot of culture and civilisation,
must recover its role as an area of peace, prosperity, tolerance, the
President of the French Republic, the President of the Council of Ministers
of Italy and the President of the Government of Spain met in Rome on
December 20, 2007 to think together about the main lines of the projected
Union for the Mediterranean. The Union for the Mediterranean will aim at
linking Europe and Africa around the countries on the Mediterranean and at
creating a equal footing partnership between the countries of the
Mediterranean basin.
The added value of the Union for the Mediterranean should lie initially in
the political dash it should provide to the Mediterranean co-operation and
in the mobilisation of the civil society, the enterprises, the local
communities, the associations and ONGs.
The Union for the Mediterranean is intended to become the heart and the
engine of co-operation in the Mediterranean and for the Mediterranean. It
should aim at making clearer and visible the actions that the various
institutions develop in favour of the Mediterranean. The Union should be
founded on the principle of co-operation and not on that of
integration.
For this purpose, they agreed to invite the Heads of State and Government of
the countries on the Mediterranean to meet with the European Union countries
on July 14 in Paris to define their common vision. This summit will be
preceded by a meeting of the bordering countries on July 13. It should
define the principles and the organisation of the Union for the
Mediterranean with the objective of implementing an approach based on
concrete projects and the recognition of a common destiny among all the
bordering countries and with the European Union.
In the coming months and until the summit, France, Spain and Italy will
start the preliminary work in close consultation with the countries invited
to participate. The purpose of this work will be to identify the fields of
priority co-operation, the most adapted projects, the study of their
feasibility, the sources of funding and to consider the list of the
stakeholders wishing to commit themselves in each concrete project.
The Union is not intended to replace the procedures of co-operation and
dialogue already linking the countries of the Mediterranean, but to
supplement them, and to give them an additional momentum, in a spirit of
complementarity and co-operation with all the existing institutions.
Therefore, the Barcelona process and the European neighbourhood policy will
remain central in the partnership between the European Union as a whole and
its partners of the Mediterranean. The Union for the Mediterranean will
interfere neither in the process of stabilisation and association for the
countries concerned, nor in the process of negotiation in progress between
the European Union and Croatia, on the one hand, between the European Union
and Turkey, on the other hand. ]]>jauadenMediterraneanMediterranean-UnionTexttext/htmlANIMAEMWIS Technical Unitinitiatives/mediterranean-unionPOLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENTMediterranean-UnionInbriefhttp://www.animaweb.org/en/actu-detail.php?actu=2717http://www.animaweb.org/en/actu-detail.php?actu=27172008-01-17T00:00:00Z2008-09-02T18:05:52Zhttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews759544snews759544snews759544http://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews7595442008-02-21T00:00:00ZjauadenFranceTexttext/htmlEMWIS Technical Unitinitiatives/mediterranean-unionPOLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENTInbriefhttp://www.reuters.com2008-02-20T00:00:00Z2008-09-02T18:05:52Zhttp://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews049187Germany, France announce Mediterranean Union 'compromise'
"We reached a compromise regarding the Mediterranean Union that we both want
and that excludes no one," Sarkozy told a news conference following talks
with Merkel in Hanover, Germany.
"We are in agreement about the Mediterranean Union," Merkel said.
Officials said the two leaders would propose at an EU summit next week that
the Mediterranean Union be adopted as an extension of an existing EU
diplomatic initiative known as the Barcelona Process.
Merkel and Sarkozy also agreed to jointly propose EU plans to fight tax
havens and to set up a working party to draft proposals on the automobile
industry and preventing climate change.
Sarkozy reportedly aims to unveil his Mediterranean grouping at an EU
summit on July 13-14 in Paris.
The arrangement it would effectively replace, the Barcelona Process
involving 12 non-EU Mediterranean nations, has had a lacklustre
history.
]]>Germany, France announce Mediterranean Union 'compromise'http://www.semide.net/initiatives/mediterranean-union/snews0491872008-03-04T00:00:00Z
"We reached a compromise regarding the Mediterranean Union that we both want
and that excludes no one," Sarkozy told a news conference following talks
with Merkel in Hanover, Germany.
"We are in agreement about the Mediterranean Union," Merkel said.
Officials said the two leaders would propose at an EU summit next week that
the Mediterranean Union be adopted as an extension of an existing EU
diplomatic initiative known as the Barcelona Process.
Merkel and Sarkozy also agreed to jointly propose EU plans to fight tax
havens and to set up a working party to draft proposals on the automobile
industry and preventing climate change.
Sarkozy reportedly aims to unveil his Mediterranean grouping at an EU
summit on July 13-14 in Paris.
The arrangement it would effectively replace, the Barcelona Process
involving 12 non-EU Mediterranean nations, has had a lacklustre
history.
]]>jauadenGermanyFranceMediterranean-UnionTexttext/htmlEarth TimesEMWIS Technical Unitinitiatives/mediterranean-unionPOLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENTMediterranean-UnionInbriefhttp://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1204579021.48/http://fr.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080303/tfr-allemagne-france-ue-mediterranee-f56f567.htmlhttp://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/189723,sarkozy-merkel-deal-on-mediterranean-union--summary.html2008-03-04T00:00:00Z2008-09-02T18:05:52Z
