International
Conference
As at
4 April 2002
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Europe,
the United States and the Mediterranean
Europe - Etats-Unis - Méditerranée
Hotel
Juan Carlos I, Av. Diagonal 661, Barcelona
22-24 novembre / November 22-24 / 22-24 novembre 2002
and in partnership with / et en partenariat
avec
Institut Aspen France
co-sponsored by
NATO Office of Information and Press
(Limited
participation by invitations only)
Preliminary
Program / Programme préliminaire |
Friday,
21 November 2002 |
21:00 |
Welcoming dinner / dîner d'accueil
at Palau Pedralbes, offered by Joan Clos, Mayor of Barcelona
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Saturday,
22 November 2002 |
09:00 - 9:30 |
Participants' registration / Inscription des
participants |
09:30 - 9:45 |
Welcoming remarks / Souhait de bienvenue:
Jordi Pujol, President, Generalitat de Cataloña,
Barcelona
Carlo Scognamiglio, Chairman, Aspen Institute Italia, Rome |
09:45 - 11:30 |
Session
I / Première Session:
The European-Mediterranean Partnership: from rhetoric
to reality
Overcoming
the dualism of a privileged partnership with Maghreb countries
and a global partnership. Holes in the Barcelona process.
Identifying common principles on which to base relations
in the Mediterranean area. Developing the best possible
institutional framework for managing relations with the
southern shore and identifying a common body of rules and
shared principles. |
11:30 - 11:45 |
Coffee break |
11:45 - 13:30 |
Session
II/ Deuxième Session:
The Security Dimension
The
new post-September 11 strategic context and its impact on
relations with Mediterranean countries and the Middle East.
What points should be stressed in an eventual US-Europe
agenda for cooperation in regional security? How to render
NATO's ESDI (European Security and Defense Identity) and
the EU's ESDP (European Security and Defense Policy) complementary?
What of the activities undertaken by NATO's "Partnership
for Peace" could be adapted to those countries in the
Mediterranean Dialogue so as to better focus the latter's
objectives? |
13:30 - 15.30 |
Buffet lunch |
15:30 - 16:45 |
Session
III / Troisième Session:
Political Transition and Dialogue of Civilizations
Europe's
image abroad: dialogue between religions, democracy, freedom
and human rights, globalization and solidarity. How to
increase tolerance, knowledge and mutual understanding
in the EU's relations with Mediterranean countries and
with the Middle East? How to improve convergence as far
as respect for minorities in the region is concerned?
Specific domestic problems in single countries: the most
relevant cases and their impact on defining common rules
of conduct. Identifying principals on which everyone can
agree and on which to base regional cooperation in diverse
sectors. Political-economic conditions that render more
effective the tools for cooperation.
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16:45 - 17:00 |
Coffee break |
17:00 - 18:30 |
Session
III / Troisième Session:
Political Transition and Dialogue of Civilizations (cont.)
Solving
Cyprus' problems and the country's entry into the EU. What
confidence-building measures might facilitate meetings between
the island's two communities? Political equality and equal
participation for Turkish Cypriots at membership negotiations.
Results of the direct intra-community talks and their impact
on the future of EU-Turkey relations. What role might Turkey
play in an eventual security agreement? |
21:00 |
Dinner at the Palau Generalitat de Cataloña
/ dîner au Palais de la Generalitat de Cataloña
offered by Jordi Pujol, President of Catalonia |
Friday,
21 November 2002 |
09:30 - 11:30 |
Session
IV / Quatrième Session:
The Economic Dimension
The
euro and its impact on trade relations in the Mediterranean
area. Access to the European market for products of private
European investment in Mediterranean countries. Promoting
investment, innovation, technology and quality, and adopting
and adapting the primary mechanisms of the internal EU market
to create a free trade zone and a homogeneous economic zone
by 2010. Regional integration of the Mediterranean's southern
shore and, in particular, the Maghreb Agadir initiative.
The establishment, within the EIB, of a reinforced Euro-Mediterranean
investment facility and the eventual creation of an EIB
majority owned subsidiary for partner countries in the Mediterranean.
Cooperation in e-government to close the digital divide
and create economic synergies. Projects already launched
with Tunisia and Jordan to redo the accounting systems of
the public administration and create a platform for e-procurement
for foreign trade. |
11:30 - 11:45 |
Coffee break |
11:45 - 13:00 |
Session
IV / Quatrième Session:
The Economic Dimension (cont.)
The
role of energy infrastructures for cooperation in the Mediterranean.
The idea of a free trade agreement between the EU and Council
for Cooperation in the Gulf (CCG) for liberalizing trade
both ways and to reach comparable levels of opportunity
to market access. The economic implications of a possible
customs union between CCG countries by 2003. |
13:00 - 13:30 |
Conclusions
/ Conclusions:
Jordi Pujol, President, Genralitat de Cataloña, Barcelona
Carlo Scognamiglio, Chairman, Aspen Institute Italia, Rome
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13:30 |
Buffet lunch |
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