(ENGLISH) 5th Annual Forum of the MedThink 5+5 network - 13th October
Published at 58 08,,, 21 2021
On October 13 and 14, Casa Árabe will bring together a group of experts, professionals and political leaders at its headquarters in Madrid to debate the future transformations facing the Western Mediterranean.
In the context of the 2021 Spanish co-presidency of the 5+5 Dialogue and drawing on the Tunis Declaration adopted at the 16th Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the 5+5 Dialogue on 22 October 2020, the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) are jointly organising the 5th annual forum of the MedThink 5+5 network in partnership with Casa Árabe in Madrid, the 13th and 14th of October 2021.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 13 October
12:30h. Welcoming words
Senén Florensa, Executive President, European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed)
Cristina Juarranz, Deputy Director, Casa Árabe
12:40h. Keynote speeches
Ángeles Moreno Bau, State Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Government of Spain
Nasser Kamel, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
Taïeb Baccouche, Secretary General, Arab Maghreb Union (UMA)
15:00h. Roundtable “The 5+5 Dialogue in the post-COVID-19 context: Ways forward to sustain and bolster the cooperation in the Western Mediterranean”
Chair
Alberto Ucelay, Director General for the Maghreb, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Government of Spain
Special interventions
Omar Amghar, Director of the EU-Morocco Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Government of Morocco
Daniel Schlosser, Advisor to the Inter-ministerial Delegate for the Mediterranean, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Government of France
Ana Helena Marques, Director of Middle East and Maghreb Services, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Portugal
Nor-Eddine Benfreha, Director of Cooperation with the EU and European Institutions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Algeria
First reactions
Mohammed Loulichki, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)
John O’Rourke, Ambassador, Former Head of Delegation of the European Union to Algeria, European External Action Service
Roger Albinyana, Managing Director, European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed)
17:00h. Session “Enhancing Regional Value Chains in the Western Mediterranean: Conditions for a Win-Win Reconfiguration of the Production Model”
Chair
Blanca Moreno-Dodson, Manager, Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI)
Speakers
Jihen Boutiba, Secretary General, Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (BUSINESSMED)
Ghazi Ben Ahmed, Founder and President, Mediterranean Development Initiative (MDI)
Emmanuel Noutary, General Delegate, ANIMA Investment Network
Davide Tentori, Research Fellow, Centre on Business Scenarios, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
First reactions
Olivia Orozco de la Torre, Coordinator of Education and Economics, Casa Árabe
Luis Óscar Moreno, Adviser, Sub-Directorate General of External Debt Management and International Financing, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transition, Government of Spain. Former Director General of Economic Diplomacy (MAEUEC)
Further information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/5th-annual-forum-of-the-medthink-5-5-network
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