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Position Papers & publications

This page contains:

Press Releases
Position papers of various organizations regarding environmental aspects of the MFTZ
Various Articles and Reports published on the topic of the MFTZ and the Environment.

Persons interested in publishing or linking articles to this page should contact [email protected]

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Letter to the Euro-Med Agriculture Ministers – to meet on November 27, 2003
Position Paper of the Friends of the Earth MedNet Calling for the Reform of SMAP – October 2003
Action Alert: Euro-Mediterranean Trade Ministerial, 29 May 2001
Environmental Impacts of a Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Zone Recommendations
NGO Letter to European Commission Protesting Lack of Progress in Euro-Med Environmental Action Programme (SMAP) – April, 2000
WWF – 12 Steps towards a More Sustainable MEDA
Contribution of FoE MEDNET to the Eleventh Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties of the Barcelona Convention, Malta 27^th 30^th October 1999.
Declaration of the Mediterranean NGOs Presented at the Second Euro-Mediterranean Ministeral Conference on Local Water Management Turin, 19 October, 1999
Comite de Suivi Letter to European Commission President Calling for Inclusion of Environmental Concerns in Euro-Med Partnership
NGO Declaration to the Euro-Mediterranean Ministers of Foreign Affairs
FoEME Position Paper addressed to the Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of Government Experts on the Euro-Mediterranean Economic Area, Brussels, 9-10 March 1999

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Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Zone:
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NGO COMMENTS ON THE SIA-EMFTA PHASE 1 REPORT FINDINGS AND METHODOLOGY November 2004
The Social Impact of Free Trade in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, short report on the Wilton Park Conference
Friends of the Earth WTO Briefing Paper #1: The Mediterranean Free Trade Zone (MFTZ): Promoting or Preventing a Sustainable Mediterranean?
Retail Trade and Environmental Responsibility in a Euro-Med Context

OTHER RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS (Misc. – hardcopy only)

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership – Analysis and Proposals of the Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Institutes (FEMISE) – by Heba Handoussa & Jean-Louis Reiffers et al., February 1999.
“The Mediterranean Free Trade Zone: Duty-Free Environmental Degradation”, by David Katz, in Middle East Report, Winter, 1999, No. 213. (Also in Arabic in Al-Rai Newspaper, Amman, Jordan May 8, 2000.)
“The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Sustainable Development: The Interface between Free Trade and the Environment” – by Anna Syngellakis, in Mediterranean Politics, 1997.
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Sustainable Development – by the European Environment Bureau (EEB), Brussels, 1997.
2010 Mediterranean Free Trade Zone Magazine – regularly issued publication (in Spanish and French) published by Dialogo Mediterraneo – email: [email protected]

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Press Releases

Euro-Med Trade Ministerial 2002
Joint FoEME/FOEE/GLOBE EU Press Release on Euro-Med FTZ Conference at European Parliament – April 18, 2000
FoEME Press Release on Jordanian-EU Association Agreement – August 18, 1999
FoEME Press Release on EU-Egyptian Association Agreement – June 23, 1999
FoEE Press Release on G8 Summit – June 18, 1999
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