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Month's event: 12.2008
- Ministerial Meetings
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First Euro-Mediterranean Forum on technical and vocational education and training
- On:18.12.2008
- In: Marseille
The first Euro-Mediterranean Forum dedicated to technical and vocational education and training was held on 18 December in Marseilles, under the co-presidency of Mohamed Rachid, the Minister of Trade & Industry of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Laurent Wauquiez, the French Minister of State for Employment. This event was held within the framework of the Union for the Mediterranean and the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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Work launched at European level ahead of the next G20 Summit
- On:18.12.2008
- In: Paris
Following the G20 meeting, the ECOFIN informal identified European guidelines regarding non-cooperative jurisdictions, the FMI’s resources, and the setting up of an early warning system to prevent financial crises.
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Enlargement: Intergovernmental conferences with Turkey and Croatia
- On:19.12.2008
- In: Bruxelles
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Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Water
- On:22.12.2008
- In: Jordan, Dead Sea
In the context of the "Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean", a ministerial conference on water will be held on 22 December in Jordan.
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Ministerial Conference on Water: A calendar of concrete projects from 2009
- On:22.12.2008
- In: Jordanie, Mer morte
The Ministerial Conference on Water held on 22 December 2008 on the shores of the Dead Sea in Jordan marked the speeding up of the issue of water management and the first important step for the implementation of the decisions made by Heads of State and Government on 13 July 2008 in Paris for the Union for the Mediterranean.
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EU Foreign Affairs Ministers' meeting on the situation in the Middle East
- On:30.12.2008
- In: Paris
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Statement by the European Union on the Situation in the Middle East
- On:30.12.2008
- In: Paris
- Other Institutional Meetings
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Meeting of the EU’s policy planning centres
- from:30.11.2008 to : 01.12.2008
- In: Paris
The director of the policy planning centre of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting of his counterparts from the policy planning services of the other 26 Member States of the European Union, along with their counterparts from the General Secretariat of the Council and the European Commission, at the Quai d’Orsay in Paris on 1 December.
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International Climate Change Conference in Poznań
- from:01.12.2008 to : 12.12.2008
- In: Poznań, Poznań International Fair Ltd. (Poland)
The Poznań conference, organised under the auspices of the United Nations, aims to continue the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and to further negotiations on the multilateral climate change regime beyond 2012.
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Africa and the European Union join forces to fight climate change
- On:02.12.2008
- In: Poznań (Poland)
From the first day of the Poznań conference, on 1 December, Africa and the European Union adopted an important joint declaration on climate change.
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