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The Union for the Mediterranean is a multilateral partnership that gathers 43 countries from the Mediterranean Basin: the 27 member states of the European Union and 16 Mediterranean partner countries North Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. It was launched in July 2008 as a new phase of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership with the objective of promoting stability and prosperity throughout the region.

The Union for the Mediterranean is the southern regional cooperation branch of the European Neighborhood Policy. Its eastern counterpart is the Eastern Partnership.

The Euro-Mediterranean Heads of State and Government decided at the Paris Summit to introduce to the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership new institutions in order to upgrade their multilateral relations, guarantee the co-ownership of the process and enhance its visibility. One of the main differences between the Barcelona Process and the Union for the Mediterranean is the creation of a Secretariat that is in charge of identifying and applying concrete projects with the aim of improving the lives of the peoples at both shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

The members of the Union of the Mediterranean are the following:
 * From the European Union side:
 * the 27 European Union member states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.)
 * the European Commission.
 * From the side of the Mediterranean Partner countries:
 * Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Israel,Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.
 * Libya as an observer state.
 * the League of Arab States

=History=

Antecedents: the Barcelona Process
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, also known as the Barcelona Process, was created in 1995 as a result of the Conference of Euro-Mediterranean Ministers of Foreign Affairs held in Barcelona under the Spanish presidency of the EU. According to the 1995 Barcelona Declaration, the aim of this initiative is: "turning the Mediterranean basin into an area of dialogue, exchange and cooperation guaranteeing peace, stability and prosperity."

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership culminates a series of attempts from the European countries to articulate their relations with their North African and Middle Eastern neighbors: the global Mediterranean policy (1972–1992) and the renovated Mediterranean policy (1992–1995).

Bichara Khader argues that this ambitious European project towards its Mediterranean neighbors has to be understood in a context of optimism. On the one hand, the European Community was undergoing important changes due to the reunification of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the beginning of the adhesion negotiations of Eastern and Central European countries. On the other, the Arab-Israeli conflict appeared to be getting closer to achieving peace after the Madrid Conference (1991) and the Oslo Accords (1992). As well, Khader states that the Gulf War of 1991, the Algerian crisis (from 1992 onwards) and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism throughout the Arab world are also important factors in Europe’s new relations with the Mediterranean countries based on security concerns.

At the time of its creation, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership comprised only 27 member countries: 15 from the European Union and 12 Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey). As a result of the European Union’s enlargement of 2004, the number of EU member states grew up to 27, and two of the Mediterranean partner countries —Cyprus and Malta— became part of the European Union. The EU enlargement changed the configuration of the Barcelona Process from "15+12" to "27+10." Albania and Mauritania joined the Barcelona Process in 2007, raising the number of participants to 39.

Critiques against the Barcelona Process escalated after the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean Summit in Barcelona in 2005, which was broadly considered a failure. First, the absence of Heads of State and Government from the Southern Mediterranean countries (with the exception of the Palestinian and Turkish ones) heavily contrasted with the attendance of the 27 European Union’s Heads of State and Government .Second, the lack of consensus to define the therm "rerrorism" prevented the endorsement of a final declaration. The Palestinian Authority, Syria and Algeria argued that resistance movements against foreign occupation should not be included in this definition. Nevertheless, a Code of Conduct on countering terrorism and a five-year work program were approved at Barcelona summit of 2005. both of which are still valid under the Union for the Mediterranean.

For many, the political context surrounding the 2005 summit —the stagnant of the Middle East Peace Process, the US-led war on Iraq, the lack of democratization in Arab countries, and the war on terror's negative effects on freedoms and human rights, among others— proved for many the inefficiency of the Barcelona Process for fulfilling its objectives of peace, stability and prosperity. Given these circumstances, even politicians that had been engaged with the Barcelona Process since its very beginnings, like the Spanish Josep Borrell, expressed their disappointment about the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and its incapacity of delivering results. Critiques from Southern Mediterranean countries blamed the Partnership’s failure on Europe’s lack of interest towards the Mediterranean in favor of its Eastern neighborhood; whereas experts from the North accused Southern countries of only being interested on "their own bi-lateral relationship with the EU" while downplaying multilateral policies.

However, many European Union diplomats have defended the validity of the Barcelona Process' framework by arguing that the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership was the only forum that gathered Israelis and Arabs on equal footing ), and identifying as successes the Association Agreements, the Code of Conduct on Countering Terrorism and the establishment of the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures.

On 2006 the first proposals for improving the Partnership’s efficiency, visibility and co-ownership arouse, such as establishing a co-presidency system and a permanent secretariat or nominating a "Mr./Ms. Med."

Mediterranean Union


A proposal to establish a "Mediterranean Union" was part of the election campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy during the French presidential election campaign in 2007. During the campaign Mr. Sarkozy said that the Mediterranean Union would be modeled on the European Union with a shared judicial area and common institutions. Sarkozy saw Turkish membership of the Mediterranean Union as an alternative to membership of the European Union, which he opposes, and as a forum for dialogue between Israel and its Arab Neighbours.

Once elected, President Sarkozy invited all heads of state and government of the Mediterranean region to a meeting in June 2008 in Paris, with a view to laying the basis of a Mediterranean Union.

The Mediterranean Union was enthusiastically supported by Egypt and Israel. Turkey strongly opposes the idea and originally refused to attend the Paris conference until it was assured that membership of the Mediterranean Union was not being proposed as an alternative to membership of the EU.

Among EU member states, the proposal was supported by Italy, Spain, and Greece.

However the European Commission and Germany were more cautious about the project. The European Commission saying that while initiatives promoting regional co-operation were good, it would be better to build them upon existing structures, notable among them being the Barcelona process. German chancellorAngela Merkel said the MU risked splitting and threatening the core of the EU. In particular she objected to the potential use of EU funds to fund a project which was only to include a small number of EU member states. When Slovenia took the EU presidency at the beginning of 2008, the then Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša added to the criticism by saying: "We do not need a duplication of institutions, or institutions that would compete with EU, institutions that would cover part of the EU and part of the neighbourhood."

Other criticisms of the proposal included concern about the relationship between the proposed MU and the existing Euromediterranean Partnership, which might reduce the effectiveness of EU policies in the region and allow the southern countries to play on the rivalries to escape unpopular EU policies. There were similar economic concerns in the loss of civil society and similar human rights based policies. Duplication of policies from the EU's police and judicial area was a further worry.

The proposal gets scaled down
At the start of 2008 Sarkozy began to modify his plans for the Mediterranean Union due to widespread opposition from other EU member states and the European Commission. At the end of February of that year, France's minister for European affairs, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, stated that "there is no Mediterranean Union" but rather a "Union for the Mediterranean" that would only be "completing and enriching" to existing EU structures and policy in the region. Following a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel it was agreed that the project would include all EU member states, not just those bordering the Mediterranean, and would be built upon the existing Barcelona process. Turkey also agreed to take part in the project following a guarantee from France that it was no longer intended as an alternative to EU membership.

The proposed creation of common institutions, and a Mediterranean Investment, which was to have been modelled on theEuropean Investment Bank, was also dropped.

In consequence the new Union for the Mediterranean would consist of regular meeting of the entire EU with the non-member partner states, and would be backed by two co-presidents and a secretariat.

The Union for the Mediterranean is launched
At the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean (13 July 2008), the 43 Heads of State and Government from the Euro-Mediterranean region decided to launch the Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean. It was presented as a new phase Euo-Mediterranean Partnership with new members and an improved institutional architecture in order to "enhance multilateral relations, increase co-ownership of the process, set governance on the basis of equal footing and translate it into concrete projects, more visible to citizens. Now is the time to inject a new and continuing momentum into the Barcelona Process. More engagement and new catalysts are now needed to translate the objectives of the Barcelona Declaration into tangible results."

The Paris summit was considered a diplomatic success for Nicolas Sarzoky. The French president had managed to gather in Paris all the Heads of State and Government from the 43 Euro-Mediterranean countries, with the exception of the kings of Morocco and Jordan. In addition to the high level of attendance, Sarkozy was also able to foster the establishment of diplomatic relations between Syria and Lebanon.

At the Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Foreign Affairs held in Marseille (November 2008), the Ministers decided to shorten the initiative’s name to simply the Union for the Mediterranean.

=Aims and the six concrete projects=

The fact that the Union for the Mediterranean is launched as a new phase of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership means that the Union accepts and commits to maintain the acquis of Barcelona, the purpose of which is to promote "peace, stability and prosperity" throughout the region (Barcelona, 2). Therefore, the four chapters of cooperation developed in the framework of the Barcelona Process during thirteen years remain valid:


 * Politics and Security
 * Economics and Trade
 * Socio-cultural
 * Justice and Interior Affairs. This fourth chapter was included at the 10th Anniversary Euro-Mediterranean Summit held in Barcelona in 2005.

The objective to establish a Free Trade Area in the Euro-Mediterranean region by 2010 (and beyond), first proposed at the 1995 Barcelona Conference, was also endorsed by the Paris Summit of 2008.

In addition to these four chapters of cooperation, the 43 Ministers of Foreign Affairs gathered in Marseille on November 2008 identified six concrete projects that target specific needs of the Euro-Mediterranean regions and that will enhance the visibility of the Partnership:


 * De-pollution of the Mediterranean. This broad project encompasses many initiatives that target good environmental governance, access to drinkable water, water management, pollution reduction and protection of the Mediterranean biodiversity.


 * Maritime and land highways.The purpose of this project is to increase and improve the circulation of commodities and people throughout the Euro-Mediterranean region by improving its ports, and building highways and railways. Specifically, the Paris and Marseille Declarations refer to the construction of both a Trans-Maghrebi railway and highway systems, connecting Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.


 * Civil protection. The civil protection project aims at improving the prevention, preparedness and response to both natural and man-made disasters. The ultimate goal is to "bring the Mediterranean Partner Countries progressively closer to the European Civil Protection Mechanism.


 * Alternative energies: Mediterranean solar plan. The goal of this project is to promote the production and use of renewable energies. More specifically, it aims at turning the Mediterranean partner countries into producers of solar energy and then circulating the resulting electricity through the Euro-Mediterranean region.


 * Higher education and research: Euro-Mediterranean University. On June 2008 the Euro-Mediterranean University was inaugurated in Piran (Slovenia), which offers graduate studies programs. The Foreign Ministers gathered at Marseille on 2008 also called for the creation of another Euro-Mediterranean University in Fes (Morocco). At the Paris summit, the 43 Heads of State and Government agreed that the goal of this project is to promote higher education and scientific research in the Mediterranean, as well as to establish in the future a "Euro-Mediterranean Higher Education, Science and Research Area."


 * The Mediterranean business development initiative. The purpose of the initiative is to promote small and medium-sized enterprises from the Mediterranean partner countries by "assessing the needs of these enterprises, defining policy solutions and providing these entities with resources in the form of technical assistance and financial instruments."

=Institutions=

In contrast with the Barcelona Process, one of the biggest innovations of the Union for the Mediterranean is its institutional architecture. It was decided at the Paris Summit to provide the Union with a whole set of institutions in order to up-grade the political level of its relations, promote a further co-ownership of the initiative among the EU and Mediterranean partner countries and improve the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership’s visibility.

Biennial Summits of Heads of State and Government
A summit of Heads of State and Government will be held every two years to foster political dialogue at the highest level. These summits should produce a joint declaration addressing the situation and challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean region, assessing the works of the Partnership and approving a two-year work program. Ministers of Foreign Affairs will meet annually to monitor the implementation of the summit declaration and to prepare the objectives of the following meetings of Heads of State and Government. According to the Paris Declaration, the country to host a summit has to be chosen upon consensus and should alternate between EU and Mediterranean countries.

Having celebrated the first summit in Paris in July 2008, the second Union for the Mediterranean summit should have taken place in a non-EU country in July 2010. A first exception to this rule was made when the Euro-Mediterranean countries agreed to hold the second summit meeting in Barcelona on 7 June 2010, under the Spanish presidency of the EU, However, on May 20 the Egyptian and French co-presidency along with Spain decided to postpone its celebration under the pretext of "giving more time" to the indirect talks between Israel and Palestine that had started that month. The Spanish media, on the other hand, blamed the postponement on the Arab threat to boycott the summit if Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, attended the Foreign Affairs conference prior to the summit. The summit was announced to take place in Barcelona on November 21, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of the launch of the Barcelona Process. After the postponement, both France and Spain planned to hold a peace talk session between Israel and Palestine in the forthcoming summit under the auspices of the US, for the purpose of which Barack Obama had been invited in September to the meeting. According to Nicolas Sarkozy, the summit was “an occasion to support the negotiations." Nevertheless, at the beginning of November 2010 the direct peace talks were stalled, and the Egyptian co-presidency conditioned the summit to a gesture from Israel that would allow the negotiations to resume. According to some experts Benjamin Netanhayu’s announcement of the construction of 1,300 new settlements in East Jerusalem ended all the possibilities of celebrating the summit on 21 November. The two co-presidencies and Spain decided on 15 November to postpone sine die the summit, alleging that the stagnation of the Middle East Peace Process would hinder a “satisfactory participation."

North and South Co-presidency system
With the purpose of guaranteeing the co-ownership of the Union for the Mediterranean, the Heads of State and Government decided in Paris that two countries, one from the EU and one from the Mediterranean partner countries, will jointly preside the Union for the Mediterranean. The 27 agreed that the EU co-presidency had to "be compatible with the external representation of the European Union in accordance with the Treaty provisions in force." The Mediterranean partner countries decided to chose by consensus and among themselves a country to hold the co-presidency for a nonrenewable period of two years."

At the time of the Paris summit, France —which was in charge of the EU presidency— and Egypt held the co-presidency. Since then, France had been signing agreements with the different rotator presidencies of the EU (Czech Republic, Sweden and Spain) in order to maintain the co-presidency for two years alongside Egypt. The renewal of the co-presidency was supposed to happen on the second Union for the Mediterranean Summit. However, due to the two postponements of the summit, there has been no chance to decide which countries will take over the co-presidency. Spain had planned to replace France as the EU co-presidency of the Union for the Mediterranean. However, Belgium — the country presiding the EU for the second semester of 2010— has opposed the Spanish aspirations. According to the Lisbon Treaty and the Paris Declaration, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security is the one in charge of holding the Union for the Mediterranean co-presidency. However, the Judicial Services of the EU Council consider that the High Representative can delegate this responsibility temporarily to another country which has not yet been chosen.

Secretariat
The task of the permanent Secretariat is to identify and monitor the implementation of concrete projects for the Euro-Mediterranean region, and to search for partners to finance these projects.

The Euro-Mediterranean Ministers of Foreign Affairs decided at the Marseille conference of November 2008 that the headquarters of the Secretariat will be in at the Royal Palace of Pedralbes in Barcelona. They also agreed on the structure of this new key institution and the countries of origin of its first members:


 * The Secretary General will be elected upon consensus from a non-EU country. His term will be for three years, which may be extended for other three. The first Secretary General is the Jordanian Ahmad Khalaf Masa’deh, the former Ambassador of Jordan to the EU, Belgium, Norway and Luxemburg, and Minister of Public Sector Reform from 2004–2005.


 * In order to enhance the co-ownership of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the six posts of Deputy Secretaries General have been assigned to three countries from the UE and three countries from the Mediterranean partner countries. For the first term of three years (extendable to other three) the Deputy Secretaries General are :


 * Panagiotis Roumeliotis (Greece), in charge of energy issues, including renewable energies.
 * Ilan Chet (Israel), responsible for the higher education and scientific research portfolio.
 * Lino Cardarelli (Italy) in charge of the economic portfolio.
 * Cecilia Attard-Pirotta (Malta), social and civil affairs.
 * Rafiq al Husseini (Palestinian Authority), in charge of water and environmental issues.
 * Mehmet Yigit Alpogan (Turkey), responsible for the transport portfolio.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean was inaugurated on March 2010 in an official ceremony in Barcelona.

Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
The Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) is not a new institution inside the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership framework. It was established in Naples on 3 December 2003 by the Euro-Mediterranean Ministers of Foreign Affairs and had its first plenary session in Athens on 22–23 March 2004. The EMPA gathers parliamentarians from the Euro-Mediterranean countries and has four permanent committees on the following issues:


 * Political Affairs, Security and Human Rights
 * Economic, Financial and Social Affairs and Education
 * Promotion of the Quality of Life, Human Exchanges and Culture
 * Women’s Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Countries

The EMPA also has an ad hoc committee on Energy and Environment. Since the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean, the EMPA’s role has been strengthened for it is considered the "legitimate parliamentary expression of the Union".

Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly
At the Euro-Mediterranean Foreign Affairs Conference held in Marseille on November 2008, the Ministers welcomed the EU Committee of the Regions proposal to establish a Euro-Mediterranean Assembly of Local and Regional Authorities (ARLEM in French). Its aim is to bridge between the local and regional representatives of the 43 countries with the Union for the Mediterranean and EU institutions.

The EU participants are the members of the EU Committee of the Regions, as well as representatives from other EU institutions engaged with the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. From the Mediterranean partner countries, the participants are representatives of regional and local authorities appointed by their national governments. The ARLEM was formally established and held its first plenary session in Barcelona on 31 January 2010. The ARLEM’s co-presidency is held by the President of the EU Committee of the Regions, Luc Van den Brande, and the Moroccan mayor of Al Hoceima, Mohammed Boudra.

Anna Lindh Foundation
The Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures, with headquarters are in Alexandria (Egypt), was established in April 2005. It is a network for the civil society organizations of the Euro-Mediterranean countries, aiming at the promotion of intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding.

At the Paris Summit it was agreed that the Anna Lindh Foundation, along with the UN Alliance of Civilizations will be in charge of the cultural dimension of the Union for the Mediterranean.

In September 2010 the Anna Lindh Foundation published a report called "EuroMed Intercultural Trends 2010." This evaluation about mutual perceptions and the visibility of the Union of the Mediterranean across the region is based on a Gallup Public Opinion Survey in which 13,000 people from the Union of the Mediterranean countries participated.

=Funding=

The Paris Declaration states that contributions for the Union for the Mediterranean will have to develop the capacity to attract funding from "the private sector participation; contributions from the EU budget and all partners; contributions from other countries, international financial institutions and regional entities; the Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership Facility (FEMIP); the ENPI", among other possible instruments,


 * The European Commission contributes to the Union for the Mediterranean through the European Neighborhood Policy Instrument (ENPI). In July 2009 the ENPI allocated €72 million for the following Union for the Mediterranean projects during 2009–2010:
 * De-pollution of the Mediterranean (€22 million).
 * Maritime and land highways (€7.5 million).
 * Alternative energies: Mediterranean Solar Plan (€5 million).
 * Euro-Mediterranean University of Slovenia (€1 million)


 * The European Investment Bank contributes to the Union for the Mediterranean through its Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership (FEMIP). Specifically, the FEMIP was mandated by the Euro-Mediterranean Ministers of Finance on 2008 to support three of the six concrete projects: de-pollution of the Mediterranean; alternative energies: Mediterranean solar plan; and maritime and land highways.


 * The InfraMed Infrastructure Fund was established in June 2010 by five financial entities: the French Caisse des Dépôts, the Moroccan Caisse de Dépôts et de Gestion, the Egyptian EFG Hermes, the Italian Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and the European Investment Bank. On an initial phase, the Fund will contribute €385 million to the Secretariat’s projects on infrastructure.


 * The World Bank has allocated $750 million for the renewable energy project through the Clean Technology Fund.

=Impact of conflicts between member countries=

Among the 43 member countries of the Union for the Mediterranean, there are three unresolved conflicts that hinder the works of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: the Arab-Israeli, Cyprus-Turkish and the Western Sahara (which, unlike Palestine, is not part of the Union for the Mediterranean.) The European Union Ambassador to Morocco, Eneko Landaburu, stated on September 2010 that he does "not believe" in the Union for the Mediterranean. According to him, the division among the Arabs "does not allow to implement a strong inter-regional policy", and calls to leave this ambitious project of 43 countries behind and focus on bilateral relations.

The fact that all the decisions, from the lowest to the highest level, in the Union for the Mediterranean are taken "by the principle of consensus" facilitates the blockage of the Partnership’s work every time tensions rise between the countries involved in these conflicts.

Due to its seriousness, Arab-Israeli conflict is the one that most deeply affects the Union for the Mediterranean. As a result of Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, the Arab Group refused to meet at high level, thus blocking all the ministerial meetings scheduled for the first semester of 2009. As well, the rejection among the Arab Ministers of Foreign Affairs to meet with their Israeli counterpart, Avidgor Lieberman, resulted in the cancellation of two ministerial meetings on Foreign Affairs on November 2009 and June 2010. Sectorial meetings of the Union for the Mediterranean have also been affected by the Arab-Israeli conflict. At the Euro-Mediterranean ministerial meeting on Water, held in Barcelona on April 2010, the Water Strategy was not approved due to a terminological disagreement of whether to refer to the occupied Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories as "occupied territories" or "territories under occupation." Two other ministerial meetings, on higher education and agriculture, had to be cancelled because of the same discrepancy.

The conflict between Turkey and Cyprus has been responsible for the delay in the endorsement of the statutes of the Secretariat, which were approved on march 2010 while the Marseille declaration sets May 2009 as the deadline for the Secretariat to start functioning. At the Paris summit, the Heads of State and Government agreed to establish five Deputy Secretaries General from Greece, Israel, Italy, Malta and the Palestinian Authority. Turkey’s desire to have a Deputy Secretary General and Cyprus’ rejection to it resulted in months of negotiation until Cyprus finally approved the creation of a sixth Deputy Secreaty General post assigned to a Turkish citizen.

The Western Sahara is a source of conflict between Algeria and Morocco. The lack of diplomatic relations among these two countries, along with the unresolved dispute over the sovereignty of the Western Sahara, prevent the implementation of any intra-Maghreb project, such as the railway and highway initiatives, as the stagnation of the Arab Maghreb Union proves.

=List of Sectorial Ministerial meetings=


 * Economic-Financial Meeting, 7 October 2008, Luxembourg. Conclusions.
 * Industry, 5–6 November 2008, Nice (France). Conclusions.
 * Employment and Labor, 9–10 November 2008, Marrakech (Morocco). Conclusions.
 * Health, 11 November 2008, Cairo (Egypt). Conslusions.
 * Water, 22 December 2008, Amman (Jordan). Conclusions.
 * Sustainable Development, 25 June 2009, Paris (France). Conclusions.
 * Economic-Financial Meeting, 7 July 2009, Brussels (Belgium). Conslusions.
 * Strengthening the Role of Women in Society, 11–12 November, Marrakech (Morocco). Conclusions.
 * Trade, 9 December 2009, Brussels (Belgium). Conclusions.
 * Water, 21–22 April 2010, Barcelona (Spain).
 * Tourism, 20 May 2010, Barcelona (Spain).

=References=