Opening Session : Opening Remarks by Co-Chairs

Les revenus sur la rive Sud de la Méditerranée sont de l'ordre d'un cinquième à un tiers de ceux de la rive Nord, des ratios qui n'ont pas beaucoup évolué au cours de la dernière génération. Ce n'était pas censé se produire. Le Processus de Barcelone, mis en place en 1995 en tant que partenariat entre l'Union européenne et les pays de l'est et du sud de la Méditerranée pour promouvoir la croissance et la stabilité dans la région, l'intégration économique grâce au commerce, à l'inves ...

All economies affected by the pandemic have something in common. The rate of vaccination of the population—quite different in different countries—has been the main factor determining the prospects for the resumption of economic activity, as it is a race against local waves of transmission of the virus. Personal contact-intensive services have borne the economic brunt of the pandemic. To the extent that vaccination enables them to restart, one may even be able to witness some tempor ...

Incomes on the southern shores of the Mediterranean are about one-fifth to one-third of those on the northern shore, ratios that have not changed much over the last generation. This was not supposed to happen. The Barcelona Process, set up in 1995 as a partnership between the European Union and eastern and southern Mediterranean countries to promote regional growth and stability, economic integration through trade, investment, and orderly migration flows, was expected to boost incom ...