Regional Cooperation Neighbourhood South

Following a call for proposals that ran throughout 2023, the Union for Mediterranean presented the first Mediterranean Capitals of 2025. This initiative aims to showcase the true power of culture and intercultural dialogue across the Euro-Mediterranean region.

Young experts analyse the Youth, Peace, Women and Security Agenda, new tools for conflict resolution, proxy wars, and EU foreign policy instruments in the Mediterranean region.

In Casablanca (Morocco) on February 2-3, 2024, important discussions were taken on key aspects during the Regional Civil Society Seminar organized by the Majalat II project.

On 30 January 2024, in Brussels, DG NEAR held a Joint Steering Committee on three programmes focusing on trade and investment with OECD, ILO and ITC. An occasion to share key updates and main achievements and discuss programmes' sustainability.

On 13 February 2024, a public-private dialogue on Promoting reforms to improve the attractiveness of the Tunisian pharmaceutical sector, took place in Tunis, in the framework of the EU-OECD programme on investment in the Mediterranean.

The Workplan of 2024, the final year of the EU-funded Water and Environment Support (WES) programme, was unanimously endorsed on the 1st of February 2023, during its online 5th Annual Steering Committee Meeting (SCM).

The Call targets experts in foresight with experience on facilitating foresight groups and researchers focusing on conflict, security, energy or politics in the Euro-Mediterranean region.