A network formed to actively involve European cities and those of the Southern and Eastern coastlines of the Mediterranean in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership initiated in 1995 by the European Commission, under the name “Barcelona Process”.
The fine print… The network met for the first time in December 2000, at the initiative of Bordeaux, which served the first presidency. In 2004, Turin took over from
Bordeaux, before passing the job on to Marseilles, in 2007. Since 2009, the city of Nice is president of the network.
During the presidency of Marseilles, action programme aimed to :
- Continuing and intensifying the Group’s relations with Community authorities,
- Broadening the partnership between European cities and MEDA cities,
- Sustaining the partnership through the action of other networks and organisations,
- Fostering project engineering and identifying funding to help cooperation programmes,
- Setting up experience-sharing and training initiatives between Euromed network cities.
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CGLU
Euromed Parliamentary Assembly