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  • Interview with Holger Standertskjold-Nordenstam - Export Helpdesk, your gateway to European markets
    26-09-2012
    Imagine you own a small company in Tunisia or Moldova and you’re about to take a strategic decision as to whether to export your dried fruit or apples to the European Union. Will the business be profitable? What are the chances of success? The EU’s Export Helpdesk is your first port of c...
  • Supporting budget: Supporting change - Interview with Luca Oriani Vieyra
    05-03-2012
    TALKING ABOUT THE NEIGHBOURHOOD EU Budget Support is not a gift. It is a mutually agreed contract aimed at supporting reforms in a jointly agreed sector, explains Luca Oriani Vieyra, responsible for Budget Support, Macro-Fiscal Policy and General Coordination with International Financial Instituti...
  • The new trade routes of old natural soap
    07-02-2012
    Cosmetics were chosen because of their great potential for market expansion: olive oil soap and other ointments from the East and the South are now within closer reach of European consumers. The Med Cosmetic project – completed in 2011 and part of the EU supported Invest In Med programme &ndas...
  • A computer network for the scientific community
    06-07-2011
      Nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, and radiology: the usage potential of the computation grid for Eumedgrid scientific research – and of the Moroccan interface MaGrid – is immeasurable.  Thanks to this network, Moroccan scientists are connected to all the education and research...
  • A research and education network to tackle the oldest affliction
    08-03-2011
      Hichem used to be an epileptic, working as a blacksmith. To start with, he tried to conceal his illness from his employer. He took medication for over ten years until the day it stopped having any effect.   This is the story of a young Tunisian who was able to banish the condition on...
  • ‘Made in Agadir Zone’: what hope for ambitious vision of the future?
    22-02-2011
    ‘Made in Agadir Zone’: is this a dream, or just an ambitious target for the future of the Agadir trade agreement, the pact designed to build a Euro-Med free trade area? “We would like one day to see products made in Agadir Zone, using accumulation of origin rules from industries in...
  • EuropeAid Feature - Support to the implementation of the Arab-Mediterranean Free Trade Agreement
    20-01-2011
        The Agadir Agreement was signed in Rabat, Morocco on 25 February 2004 to establish a free trade area between Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco. As economic integration was the starting point of the EU, this experience is now transferred to Arab Mediterranean countries. The creation ...
  • EuropeAid Feature - Improving the economic and social conditions of low-income groups in Lebanon
    20-12-2010
    The Economic and Social Fund of Development project addresses the economic and social problems in Lebanon engendered by 15 years of civil conflict, 22 years of Israeli occupation and ongoing regional tensions. In partnership with the EC, this programme aims at cushioning the impact of trade libera...
  • Femise Feature - National savings still not enough for true convergence
    22-07-2010
    The financial crisis has cut growth in southern Mediterranean countries by two percentage points on average, claims Jean-Louis Reiffers, chairman of the scientific committee and coordinator of the Femise. This is far less than the slowdown in Europe, but the state of the region’s public fina...
  • Eurojar Feature - Egypt, biggest beneficiary of the Agadir Agreement
    13-07-2010
    Free Trade Agreements between Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt increased trade exchange volume by 45% between 2007 and 2008. That being said, with 115% increase in its exports and 131% in its imports with its 3 partners, Egypt appears to have succeeded in achieving the best performance. Juli...
  • The People behind the Projects - Interview with Richard Weber - NIF
    21-06-2010
    Blending loans and grants to finance investments for the Neighbourhood   The Neighbourhood Investment Facility (NIF) is an innovative financial instrument of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), whose primary objective is to kick-start key infrastructure projects that require considerable...
  • Eurojar Feature - FEMISE for a growing consensus on reforms
    07-05-2010
    In order to facilitate the implementation of reforms, the European Union Delegation in Lebanon organized in 2007 with the help of FEMISE, or Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Institutes of Economic Sciences, four forums on several issues.   Julien Théron - Beirut, Eurojar Originally, FEMI...
  • Collecting reliable statistics vital for the Euro-Med Partnership
    03-11-2009
    EU-funded MEDSTAT II programme highlights its work and achievements through videos and interviews with the people on the ground     Strengthening the capacity of the Mediterranean Partner Countries to collect updated, timely and relevant statistics, that ensure reliability and coherenc...
  • Euro-Mediterranean area full of business success stories
    06-07-2009
    Entrepreneurs are leading the way in bringing the northern and southern rims of the Mediterranean closer together, a collection of business success stories shows. The collection was compiled by the European Investment Bank (EIB), European Commission and ANIMA Investment Network and will be presented...
  • Euromed Quality programme
    30-01-2009
    The Euromed Quality programme is financed by the European Commission and implemented by CEN, the European Committee for Standardization.   To read more click here  ...
  • Preparing tomorrow's olive oil!
    07-11-2008
    Innovation and daring, these are what the Medibtikar programme, developed by the European Union, wants to use to improve the quality of Tunisian olive oil. The outcome will be better adaptation to current and future international standards in this field, and an increase in sales that could be as hig...
  • EU connecting Arab and European Gas Markets
    31-10-2008
    A project that helps develop energy, boost the economy and creates regional links. In Syria there are three priority areas: infrastructure, regulatory framework and transfer of knowledge and skills.   By All4Syria.org    ...
  • Hydraulic challenges and European partnership
    10-09-2008
    7000 hectares of cultivated fields surrounding Moroccan towns are irrigated with untreated waste water and out of 72 waste water treatment stations in the country, only half are actually operational. This situation was disclosed thanks to MEDAWARE, one of the five projects benefiting Morocco under t...
  • The future is smart
    23-02-2008
    Medibtikar encourages Euro-Med cooperation in high-tech sector: one long-standing ambition of the Egyptian Government was to create a high-tech environment that would welcome the most prominent international companies. The vision has now become reality through the Smart Village, just north of Cairo,...
  • Attracting European Investment to the Mediterranean
    18-01-2008
    The EuroMed Partnership promotes closer economic cooperation between the countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean and the European Union. Key priorities are the development of enterprise, competitiveness and innovation, as well as the facilitation of trade in industrial products. ...
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