Representatives from 36 countries of the EU and the southern Mediterranean participate Monday in Barcelona at a conference of foreign ministers to discuss how to strengthen cooperation to issues such as the fight against jihadist terrorism, illegal immigration or energy.
The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, will be in charge of closing the opening ceremony before the ministerial representatives of the 36 countries cited in Barcelona begin their sessions.
The conference was organized by Spain, the European Commission and Latvia (as the country holding the rotating presidency of the EU) and it also involved all countries in the EU with Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon.
They have confirmed their attendance most ministers summoned, while they have already announced that they will send their foreign heads of Israel, Greece, UK, Ireland, Bulgaria, Finland and Lithuania.
At the summit coincide diplomats responsible for Israel and Palestine, although intervene at different tables to be developed in parallel.
The Barcelona meeting was convened at a time when the European Commission has proposed a revision of the neighborhood policy both Eastern and Southern EU to make it more effective and want to exchange inquiries about with the countries concerned.
The discussion will be organized by two parallel tables, one headed by Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, and another by the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the EU, Federica Mogherini, and working lunch.
These sessions will address how to improve the neighborhood policy of the EU and specific issues such as the fight against jihadist terrorism, migration, energy and trade.
In this regard, the summit will be held in Barcelona days after the arrest of eleven members of an alleged jihadist cell planning to attack in Catalonia.
Before the start of the conference, Margallo and his French and German counterparts, Laurent Fabius and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, respectively, pay homage to early in the morning at the airport of El Prat victims the air disaster Germanwings plane that crashed in the Alps.
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