Interview: Is decentralization a tool for territorial cohesion?
Nov 09, 2015 / Library
With the growing role of civil society and the implementation of ambitious reforms for decentralisation north and south of the Mediterranean, it is crucial to create institutions capable of ensuring the involvement of local actors in the decision making. From this perspective, is decentralization a tool for territorial cohesion? Aude Signoles,...
Statistical Review on Mediterranean countries: Agriculture, Food Security, Society, Environment
Nov 09, 2015 / Library
The 2015 CIHEAM Statistical Review on Mediterranean countries brings together various statistical indicators (Demography, Macroeconomics, Agriculture Economics, Agricultural Production, Food Security and Environment) in order to offer essential information on the Mediterranean and agricultural issues. You will also find in it, interesting...
The Post-2015 Agenda and the Mediterranean Futures
Nov 09, 2015 / Library
To move forward a greater development in the Mediterranean, the adoption of the Post-2015 Global Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals constitutes an important step towards sustainability strategies in the region. This is in a context where the future of the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation must be redefined, in agreement with the new...
Refugees, then?
Oct 22, 2015 / Library
Youth-focused radio show dedicated to the Syrian refugee crisis. With young invitees, the discussion looks closely at the crisis and tries to understand its scope and the challenges it poses to refugees and neighboring hosting countries alike. The show also focuses on the integration journey of young refugees and sheds light on some successful...
Initiative of the Luxembourg Presidency for Youth Employment through Vocational Training in the Maghreb Countries
Oct 14, 2015 / Highlight
Marseille, France, 21-22 September, 2015: The Center for Mediterranean Integration co-organised with the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union the first technical meeting on the Initiative of the Luxembourg Presidency for youth employment through vocational training in the Maghreb countries. The aim of this meeting was to...
Economic Transitions in the Mediterranean
TV Debate on Syrian Refugees Crisis
Oct 08, 2015 / Library
Special trilingual TV debate on the Syrian Refugee crisis, in Arabic, French and English.
Arabic debate:
Driss El Yazami, President of Moroccan Human Rights Council
Amna Guellali, Director of Human Rights Watch Tunisia
Ahmed Moawia, Coordinator of Greek Migrants Forum
Wafik Moustafa, Chairman, British Arab Network
Taoufik...
Towards a Concerted Economic Strategy in the Mediterranean
Oct 06, 2015 / Blog entry
Malgré leur proximité géographique et culturelle, l’Europe et les Pays du Sud et de l’Est Méditerranéen (PSEM) n’ont toujours pas élaboré une véritable stratégie économique commune, comme le Japon des années 1960 a su le faire en Asie, ou l’Allemagne des années 1990 avec les Pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale. Chaque zone pourrait pourtant puiser...
Challenges of the Mediterranean Economic Area
Oct 01, 2015 / Library
Eco d’ici Eco d’ailleurs, the economic show of Radio France Internationale, with Jean-Pierre Boris, discusses the challenges and successes of the Mediterranean economic area. Panelists : Mourad Ezzine, Manager of the Center for Mediterranean Integration; Jean-Louis Reiffers, President of the Scientific Council of the Institut de la...
Mediterranean Debates on Refugee Crisis - Main Points Discussed
Oct 01, 2015 / Library
This document compiles the main points discussed during the trilingual TV show on the Syrian Refugee crisis. The show was co-produced by France24, the Center for Mediterranean Integration and the MuCEM. It included three separate discussions, one in Arabic, one in English and one in French with four panelists each. It was recorded and broadcasted...
La Mediterranee en debats depuis le MuCEM a Marseille
Syrian Refugee Crisis: What we watch in Horror on the Nightly News has Been Unfolding for Years in the Middle East
Sep 17, 2015 / Blog entry
Aujourd’hui, le monde prend conscience de la réalité à laquelle sont confrontés depuis trois ans certains pays du Moyen-Orient. L’image tragique et insupportable du petit syrien Aylan, couché face contre terre sur une plage de Turquie, a mis en lumière et a interpellé nos consciences face au drame vécu par des millions de réfugiés fuyant les...
Who will Help Syria’s Displaced University Students?
Sep 17, 2015 / Blog entry
Les conflits qui sévissent actuellement dans la région du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord (MENA) sont d’une ampleur inédite. Avec 16 millions de personnes déplacées et une proportion plus importante encore menacée de l’être, les troubles ne s’éteindront pas de sitôt. C’est par ailleurs une crise inhabituelle en ce qu’elle touche des pays...
TV Debate: A Mediterranean Graveyard for Migrants?
Sep 16, 2015 / Highlight
France 24, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM) and the Center for Mediterranean Integration bring you a special Mediterranean debate from Marseille.
Every day, thousands risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean in an attempt to reach Europe. The news is full of the migrants' tragic stories; of makeshift crafts...
[Mediterranean Debates TV Show] A Mediterranean Graveyard for Migrants?
Territorial Cohesion and Inclusive Growth in a Mediterranean Region Undergoing Transition
Sep 14, 2015 / MDF
Starts: Nov 06, 2015
Ends: Nov 06, 2015
Location: Villa Mediterranée, Marseille, France
Event organized as part of the Mediterranean Economic Week, held in Marseille on November 4-7th, 2015, on the topic of « Cities and Territories, Drivers of Economic Development in the Mediterranean »
Lead Organisations
Center for Mediterranean...
Territorial Cohesion and Inclusive Growth in the Mediterranean Region undergoing transition
Syria’s Neighbours Seek Help with Refugee Crisis
Sep 08, 2015 / Library
Interviews with Ferid BELHAJ, Country Director for the Middle East at the World Bank and Salaheddin AL BASHIR, Chairman of the Board of Justice Center for Legal Aid in Jordan, in the context of the high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis “From Resilience to Development” jointly organized by the CMI, the World Bank,...
Les pays d'accueil offrent au monde un bien public mondial
Sep 08, 2015 / Library
Interviews with Ferid BELHAJ, Country Director for the Middle East at the World Bank; Alain BIFANI, Director General at the Lebanese Ministry of Finance; Amin AWAD, Director of Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa at UNHCR; and Olivier Ray, Head of the Crisis Prevention and Conflict Unit at the French Development Agency.
Interviews...
Syria Refugee Crisis: Supporting Mashreq Countries in their Development Agenda
Sep 08, 2015 / Highlight
Sixty decision-making representatives from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey and European countries affected by the refugee crisis, development and financing partners, practitioners and technical experts on fragility and conflict gathered in Marseille to discuss the long term development implications of the refugee crisis in the...
Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) Newsletter #15 [July - Aug 2015]
“Mediterranean Debates” TV Show on Migrations
Sep 01, 2015 / Highlight
The CMI is partnering with France 24 TV channel and the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM) for the co-production of new trilingual TV debate show series: “The Mediterranean Debates”.
The first edition will be dedicated to a key issue that is on everyone’s agenda: refugees and migration across the Mediterranean.
The show...
Improving Refugee Integration Policies: National Policies for an International Challenge
Aug 26, 2015 / Library
As record numbers of refugees attempt dangerous Mediterranean crossings to escape instability and poverty in parts of Northern Africa and the Middle East, countries in Europe and North America have struggled to craft helpful policy responses –from the role of nations within a global protection system to the mechanics of asylum seeker processing...
OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015
Jul 20, 2015 / Library
The digital economy now permeates countless aspects of the world economy, impacting sectors as varied as banking, retail, energy, transportation, education, publishing, media or health. Information and Communication Technologies are transforming the ways social interactions and personal relationships are conducted, with fixed, mobile and broadcast...
[Webinar] National Policies for an International Challenge: Improving Refugee Integration Policies
Jul 16, 2015 / Highlight
As record numbers of refugees attempt dangerous Mediterranean crossings to escape instability and poverty in parts of Northern Africa and the Middle East, countries in Europe and North America have struggled to craft helpful policy responses –from the role of nations within a global protection system to the mechanics of asylum seeker processing...
Let the Sunshine In
Jul 08, 2015 / Blog entry
By Melissa Bell
Ours was a debate before the big debate that’s to take place in December. The whole world will be meeting in Paris in the hope of finding a deal that would limit greenhouse emissions to 2 degrees above pre industrial levels. The aim is about as ambitious as it could be: to agree the first universal and legally binding...
Why Does Europe Import Pineapples, But Not Solar Energy?
Jul 02, 2015 / Blog entry
Jonathan Walters* et Silvia Pariente-David**
Voici un dialogue fictif entre un certain M. Protection et une certaine Mme Solaire, pour mieux comprendre pourquoi l’Europe n’importe pas d’électricité solaire en provenance des régions les plus ensoleillées, mais toute sa consommation d’ananas!
Mme Solaire : «...
Economic Transitions in the Mediterranean: Response to the European Union Consultation for Defining a New European Southern Neighbourhood Policy
Jun 18, 2015 / Highlight
The CMI has responded to the European Union consultation for the defining of a new European Southern Neighbourhood Policy.
At the initiative of intellectuals from the two sides of the Mediterranean who are convinced that there is a common destiny uniting the nations and peoples of this region, a working group met to reflect on the transitions...
