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Bridging the Mediterranean: the Athens Business Forum
One year after the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean,the forum entitled “A Bridge over the Mediterranean” tookplace in Athens from 8 to 10 July 2009, on the sidelines ofthe annual Invest in Med conference. This event, intended forthe Euro-Mediterranean private sector, was organised by theGreek business federation (SEV) with the backing of Invest inMed and in cooperation with BUSINESSMED and BusinessEurope. It brought together more than 800 businessmen and women,business leaders, representatives of employers’ federations,business supporting organisations and political personalitiesfrom all the countries of the Mediterranean.This forum provided an opportunity to reiterate the strongcommitment of the private sector to intensify the exchangesbetween Europe and Mediterranean in order to contributeto the development, growth and the creation of jobs in theEuro-Mediterranean region. Individual business meetingswere also organised. PartnersOther information
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The Invest in Med programme aims at developing sustainable trade relationships, investments and enterprise partnerships between the two rims of the Mediterranean. Funded at 75% by the European Union over the 2008-2011 period, it is implemented by the MedAlliance consortium, which associates economic development organisations (ANIMA, leader of the programme), CCIs (ASCAME, EUROCHAMBRES), and business federations (BUSINESSMED). The members of these networks, as well as their special partners (UNIDO, GTZ, EPA Euroméditerranée, World Bank, etc.), gather a thousand of economic actors - mobilised through pilot initiatives centered on key Mediterranean promising niches. Each year, a hundred operations associate the 27 countries of the European Union and 9 Mediterranean partner countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria and Tunisia.