{"id":336,"date":"2008-07-13T01:48:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T05:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/07\/making_mediterrranean_waves\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T13:32:04","slug":"making_mediterrranean_waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/07\/making_mediterrranean_waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Mediterranean waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From MESH Admin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:R3iunEDyhzUvMM:http:\/\/cache.daylife.com\/imageserve\/0cjHbL28Jh5oY\/610x.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"110\" width=\"136\" \/>Today (Sunday) is the inaugural conference in Paris of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). French President Nicolas Sarkozy, father of the idea, originally proposed a body independent of the EU, linking together all the states bordering the Mediterranean sea. He also proposed that the new Union take a lead in Arab-Israeli peacemaking, since it would include both Israel and Arab states.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But opposition within the EU to a separate entity has led to the inclusion of the full EU membership in the UfM, as well as its incorporation within the existing Barcelona Process, the EU&#8217;s own decade-old Euro-Med initiative. Arab opposition to normalization with Israel has also reduced the Union&#8217;s initial agenda to promotion of development projects. Nevertheless, the conference will be attended by a wide range of Middle Eastern prime ministers and presidents, including Ehud Olmert and Bashar Asad. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromesco.net\/images\/paper68eng.pdf\">paper<\/a>, by the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission (EuroMeSCo) provides some context.<\/p>\n<p>The French newspaper <em>Le Figaro<\/em>, which has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/international\/union-pour-la-mediterranee.php\" target=\"_blank\">online dossier<\/a> of articles about the UfM, has prepared an interactive map (in French) showing the current likely composition of the UfM, the scope of Sarkozy&#8217;s original plan, likely co-presidents, possible sites of the secretariat, development projects, and budget. (If the map doesn&#8217;t appear right below, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/assets\/flash\/europe-UPM.swf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/assets\/flash\/europe-UPM.swf\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/]<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MESH Admin Today (Sunday) is the inaugural conference in Paris of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). French President Nicolas Sarkozy, father of the idea, originally proposed a body independent of the EU, linking together all the states bordering the Mediterranean sea. He also proposed that the new Union take a lead in Arab-Israeli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2747,2748,1910],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-union","category-france","category-maps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}