ABC of Spain 2 / The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, and the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas, match today at the opening of the ministerial meeting between the EU countries and the southern Mediterranean to be held in Barcelona and in which common challenges, particularly the threat of jihadist terrorism, immigration and energy security will be discussed face.
After accompanying Rajoy and the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the EU, Federica Mogherini at the reception participants, Mas will deliver welcoming remarks and close the opening of the meeting a statement by the head of the Spanish.
Neither More nor Rajoy will present later in the proceedings of a meeting to be attended by the Veintiocho community, eight of the ten countries that are part of the policy Sur EU neighborhood: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon. The other two-Syria and Libya were not invited due to the difficulty of having adequate partners in the conflict situation in which they find themselves.
High representative of Morocco Of the 28 EU members 22 have announced the shipment of its foreign ministers, among which is the Spanish José Manuel García-Margallo, and the rest will be represented at a lower level. Among the southern neighbors, Israel only confirmed their presence at the level of deputy minister. In the case of Morocco, although initially it was to attend the Minister for Europe, is very likely to do so eventually the chief diplomat, Salahedine Mezouar, which would add more interest to the appointment, as regards the Type bilateral issues affecting Madrid and Rabat, as the reviews for the rescue of cavers or decision of Judge Pablo Ruz processed senior Moroccan eleven counts of genocide charges in the Sahara, which has caused unrest in Morocco.
The participants discussed on how to improve the ENP and will meet in two separate rooms with the idea of making more agile discussions tables to Spanish diplomatic sources, although that circumstance allow the Israeli Deputy Minister, Tzahi Hanegbi not match the Palestinian minister, Riad Al Malki, so you can avoid some friction in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the past have hindered the achievement of Euro-Mediterranean agreements. In fact, that has been the main obstacle to progress in politics between Europe and its southern neighbors since the Barcelona Process was launched since 2008 is trying to revitalize the Union for the Mediterranean in 1995.
It was 2008, precisely the final year of a meeting at ministerial level between the EU and the southern Mediterranean shore, which for some years has been the highest percentage of funds allocated to European its Eastern and Southern neighbors. For the period 2014-2020 there budgeted more than 15,000 million euros, although the situation in Ukraine has made have turned their eyes toward that area.
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