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Link in Med
(business partnership) Medalliance Network directory
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Home > Invest-in-Med > Med countries profiles Med countries profilesAt the crossroads of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the Mediterranean Sea, that the Romans called Mare Nostrum (our sea), is the very cradle of Western civilisation. From the Roman Empire to the Egyptian pyramids, from the Greek thinkers to the philosophers of the Enlightenment, from the birth of the Judeo-Christian religions to modern day, the Mediterranean world has, over the centuries, born privileged testimony to the important evolutions of humanity. Extending from East to West over 3,860 km, it is 800 km wide in the West and 1,000 km wide in the East, and flanks twenty seven countries which have shared a common destiny for centuries. With this impressive heritage behind them, together with their strategic geographical situation, the Mediterranean States today have every intention of exploiting their numerous assets so as to take up the challenges of the third millennium. The economic overview by countryThe leaflets proposed below will help you to better know the 9 Mediterranean countries partners of the European Union which directly benefit from the Invest in Med programme (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria and Tunisia) and Turkey which benefits now from a special status vis a vis the European Union. For each country the leaflets offer a view on the essential economic information: the main social and economic indicators, useful links, the country in international rankings, the infrastructures and business opportunities.
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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.