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Anna Lindh Mediterranean Forum to be the largest gathering of civil society since the Arab Spring

05-07-2012

The Advisory Council of the Anna Lindh Foundation and representatives from Euro-Mediterranean youth from 35 countries have defined the agenda for the Anna Lindh Mediterranean Forum in Marseille from 4 to 7 April 2013. The forum will be the largest gathering of civil society from the North and South of the Mediterranean since the beginning of Arab Spring.

Speaking in Istanbul, the President of the Anna Lindh Foundation, André Azoulay highlighted "the symbolic and pioneering characteristic of the encounter and the dialogue between the personalities of the Advisory Council of the Foundation and NGO leaders from both the North and the South, representing the younger generation in the Mediterranean".
 
The Anna Lindh Foundation’s approach has been to facilitate the most direct contact with the most credible instances of civil society in the 42 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean. This approach, added Mr. Azoulay, "is needed today more than before when we know the place and role of civil society in the overhaul of the institutional and political landscape in the South and the social and political impact of the crisis on the North of the Mediterranean".
 
The meetings in Istanbul and those to come this autumn, especially the one in Morocco dedicated to women and in Algeria on migration, will help to refine and enrich the agenda of the Forum in April 2013 in Marseille, so as to make this meeting “the Estates-General of the Euro-Mediterranean, with an updated road map, revised and corrected by the important changes that witnesses our region", concluded the President of the Anna Lindh Foundation.
 
The Anna Lindh Foundation for Inter-Cultural Dialogue promotes knowledge, mutual respect and inter-cultural dialogue between the people of the Euro-Mediterranean region, working through a network of more than 3,000 civil society organisations in 43 countries. Its budget is co-funded by the EU (€7 million) and the EU member states (€6 million). (EU Neighbourhood Info)
 
 
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