As a result, the region relies on diesel imports from the United States for consumption in northwest Europe, and from Russia to meet Mediterranean basin demand. Diesel use is more widespread than gasoline in the major car-owning economies of Europe. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| “Democratic and Economic Transformation in North Africa and the Middle East ... StarAfrica.com Producer and consumer countries stand to benefit from the huge solar energy potential in the southern Mediterranean. There is potential for minimizing illegal migration and expanding cooperation in this field. The EU has offered the transition ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Euro bailout won't stave off default by Greece New Zealand Herald It was about unity, so Mediterranean countries like Greece, with dramatically lower productivity, were encouraged to join as well. Greece, with access to practically unlimited credit because its currency was the "sound" euro, ran up enormous foreign ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Finland Demands Stronger Monitoring Of Troubled Euro Nations Wall Street Journal Katainen described the recent events in Greece as "unfortunate", and said trust towards the Mediterranean country had received a "serious blow". Over the weekend Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou accepted the formation of a national unity ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nature's Key To A Bright Future For Libya Scoop.co.nz (press release) “Efforts to conserve Libya's coast can build on experiences in other Mediterranean countries, where effective management and sustainable development of natural protected areas have benefitted the environment and local people.” See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Kenya: New Challenges Facing Libyan PM AllAfrica.com Some of Kaddafi's arms stockpiles in Libyans will certainly pour into the neighbouringcountries through the Mediterranean nation's porous and un-policed boarders. This is a potent threat in a region already destabilized by popular revolutions in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Italy is bust; it's just a question of when MarketWatch Even worse, a healthy Mediterranean diet — lots of red wine and olive oil — means life expectancy is rising fast. Italian women now have the longest life expectancy in Europe at 83.2 years (perhaps because they have so few children), and the men are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Call for proposals on reform of higher education through international ... Cordis News ... cooperation that involves the European Union and partner countries and focuses on the reform and modernisation of higher education systems in the Partner Countries of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean region. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Egypt chairs conference of Union for the Mediterranean Egypt SIS (press release) The conference is the first of its kind that held after the success of revolutions of Arab spring of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The conference that will take two days will tackle ways to achieve the sustainable development of Mediterranean countries ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Global travel industry posts all-time record figures Focus on Travel News By contrast, according to the IPK International's forecasts, it will take some time before Arab countries regain their visitors' confidence. ”As a result of the Arab Spring,Mediterranean countries such as Greece, Portugal, Spain, as well as Italy, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Financial year 2011/2012: Heidelberg publishes half-yearly figures -- program ... MarketWatch (press release) The order backlog for Heidelberg is highly differentiated internationally, and is influenced on the one hand by the continuing uncertainties in the US, Japan, and theMediterranean countries, and on the other hand by the favorable business trend in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Project CLAMER finds 'disturbing' evidence of changes to Europe's seas environmentalresearchweb ... European Science Foundation, with contributions from more than 20 scientists, the CLAMER synthesis and related book examine the environments of the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Arctic Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Israeli minister: Strike possible on Iran CBS News With most of its population concentrated in a narrow corridor of land along theMediterranean, Israel's home front could be vulnerable to a counterattack if Israel were to strike. An Israeli attack would also likely spark retaliation from Iran and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Debt, guilt and America's good fortune The Economist (blog) And I'm going to take this opportunity to annoy a lot of Dutch and Germans by saying that I think this may be related to their self-defeatingly punitive anti-Mediterraneanattitudes in euro-zone rescue negotiations. Fortunately, England was conquered ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cypriot Government Planning More Fiscal Measures, Kazamias Says BusinessWeek Moody's Investors Service lowered the east Mediterranean island's sovereign-credit rating two levels to Baa3, the lowest investment grade, on Nov. 4. That followed Standard and Poor's Oct. 27 cut to BBB from BBB+ on expectations Cyprus will be forced ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust Signs MoU With Venice Port Authority LogisticsWeek With over two million passengers per year, the Port of Venice is the first home port for cruise ships in the Mediterranean Sea. The expertise of Port of Venice in Cruise shipping could also be shared with JNPT in order that this expanding segment of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cypriot Government Planning More Fiscal Measures, Kazamias Says Bloomberg Moody's Investors Service lowered the east Mediterranean island's sovereign-credit rating two levels to Baa3, the lowest investment grade, on Nov. 4. That followed Standard and Poor's Oct. 27 cut to BBB from BBB+ on expectations Cyprus will be forced ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Proteins combat sickle cell in mice Futurity: Research News ... according to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. It's most common among those with an ancestry to Africa, South and Central America, the Caribbean islands, India, Saudi Arabia and Mediterranean countries such as Turkey, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| SOCIETE GENERALE: QUARTERLY FINANCIAL INFORMATION MarketWatch (press release) International Retail Banking was underpinned by the commercial dynamism of the franchises in Eastern Europe (especially in the Czech Republic and Russia), theMediterranean Basin, Sub-Saharan Africa and French overseas territories. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| VIP, DHR, NEE, NBG, MUR - Stocks to watch at NYSE Retirement Planning The Bank's branch and ATM network in Greece is compr ised of 570 banking units and 1472 ATMs, throughout the country. After acquisitions in SE Europe and EasternMediterranean, the Bank's network overseas includes 1189 units. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| John Sutton enjoys the splendour of the fabulous Cote d'Azur Liverpool Echo The train isn't much dearer, and goes along the stunning Mediterranean coastline through the likes of Monaco, Cannes, Nice and San Tropez. We started off in Nice, flying into the airport where the runway is reclaimed from the sea and taking a short ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| IN FOCUS: Libya's united front Flightglobal Several of Qatar's aircraft had to make an emergency diversion to Luqa airport in Malta after running short of fuel during their deployment to the Mediterranean, and one of the UAE's F-16s was destroyed in a crash after over-shooting the runway at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Leveraging weakness TransConflict The export terminal is located at the entrance of the Adriatic Sea which is a geographically easily accessible location – both from the Western and EasternMediterranean. The export side is the bottleneck of increasing oil production. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| NATO - Foreign Press Center Roundtable ISRIA (registration) The other thing is we have a – what is called a Mediterranean Dialogue, which is a partnership with seven countries, including six Arab countries and Israel. That includes Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Jordan, and, as I said, Israel, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Libya – A NATO Success Story ISRIA (registration) Seventy-five percent of the tankers flying over the Mediterranean were flown by American air forces. Without tankers, you can't fly long-range bombing runs. Or keep a combat air patrol going for very long. NATO is also critically short of intelligence, ... See all stories on this topic » |
| News — IEMed News. Noticia An international forum analyses the challenges for energy in ... 39 European and southern Mediterranean countries and 25 new documentary ... www.iemed.org/actualitat-en/noticies?set_language=en |
| News.Az - Security in Mediterranean Sea under discussion in Baku The event organized by the Center for Strategic Studies under the President is attended by international experts, government and state officials of Azerbaijan, ... www.news.az/articles/politics/47516 |
| Pirates of the Mediterranean Sea | Truth Frequency News The two ships sailed from Turkey on Wednesday, carrying US$30000 worth of medical aid to the Gaza Strip, according to news reports: CPJ has confirmed the ... truthfrequencynews.com/?p=18927 |
| The Secretary ... - Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean | Secrétariat de l'Union pour la ...especially with the recent regional context in the South Mediterranean countries. ... www.ufmsecretariat.org/.../the-secretary-general-of-the-ufm-in... |
