[Webinar] Trade, Employment and Post-COVID Integration in Global Value Chains (GVCs)" What accompanying policies are needed to reap employment benefits in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia?   27 JULY 2021 | 15:00-17:30 PARIS TIME (09:00-11:30 AM EDT)       Rationale By allowing countries to specialize in producing the goods and services where they have...

This article is part of the CMI/FEMISE joint “COVID-19 Med Policy Brief Series”, aimed at addressing the urgent issue of the COVID-19 socio-economic effects and impact on the EU-Mediterranean region

The Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) held its twelfth annual meeting in a fully virtual format due to COVID-19 restrictions. This, however, did not prevent the success of the reunion with an online attendance of high-level representatives from all members and partner organizations. The meeting, chaired by the World Bank's Strategy and...

Interviewed by Paco Doblas for Aragón Radio, CMI Manager, Blanca Moreno-Dodson, notes that COVID-19 has been a step backwards in the inclusion of refugees because many of the resources for hosting have been focused on meeting the emergencies of the pandemic. However, "The COVID-19 crisis is a crisis of inequality, and its impact is not so much...

English    “Youth, Actors for Change: Rethinking Mobility” This paper aims to contribute to a new discourse – around education, employability, and mobility, to enable the youth to become drivers for change in the Mediterranean region – appealed for in the “Commitments for a New Ambition in the Mediterranean” made in the framework of the...

Enhancing Mediterranean Integration: Regional Knowledge Series Session 2. New Dimensions of Regional Integration: From Trade to Deeper Integration     Context   Despite displaying a large potential, the three interlinked dimensions of regional integration those being —foreign direct investment, trade of goods and services, and peoples’ mobility...