Society / Institutions
Find the socio-political economic events in the Mediterranean: society, politics, elections, international cooperation, environment, audit, conflicts, education, research, training, regional development, social economy ... in Algeria, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Portugal, Egypt, Greece, Albania, Croatia, Turkey
ISRAEL / PALESTINE. Accused by several organisations of forgetting the Palestinians in its vaccination plan against coronavirus, the State of Israel is finally going to supply 5000 vaccines to the Palestinian Authority's medical teams.
EU. The European Commission has issued €14bn worth of social bonds under the SURE instrument developed by the European Union to help eighteen Member States protect jobs and employees from the consequences of the health crisis.
TURKEY / EU. On a visit to Brussels, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkish Foreign Minister, is trying to resume dialogue with the European Union despite the many points of disagreement between the two sides.
LIBYA. The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum has approved the mechanism for selecting the executive branch of government to enable national elections to be held at the end of December 2021.
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SYRIA. In the face of the economic crisis in Syria and historically high food prices, 13 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance according to the UN.
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ISRAEL / EGYPT. In the middle of the election campaign for the legislative elections, Israel approves the construction of 781 housing units in settlements in the Palestinian territories.
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FRANCE. The President of the Aix Marseille Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry Luc Chauvin strongly asserts his support for the project of fast underground exclusive right-of-way transport that would put Marseille fifteen minutes from Aix-en-Provence against forty-five minutes today by RER.
LIBYA. António Guterres, UN Secretary General, appoints Slovak Ján Kubiš as Special Envoy for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya.
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Despite the signing on Christmas Eve of a nearly 1,300-page pavement setting out the post-Brexit relationship between Britain and the European Union, the question of Gibraltar has not yet been fully resolved. It will only be settled after bilateral negotiations between London and Madrid.
MEDITERRANEAN. The situation related to the pandemic is changing almost daily, with measures taken region by region or city by city in some countries.
ITALY. Giuseppe Conte has decided to play double or nothing by adopting a National Recovery and Resilience Plan worth €210bn to which €13bn of React-EU loans have been added, making a total of €222.9bn in loans.
TURKEY / EU. Turkish president wants to "put back on track" relations between his country and the European Union.
WORLD. In progression of 2.3% over one year, today the total population of the French-speaking world would amount to 524 million inhabitants. That is more than the population of the European Union.
