Policy Study: Mediterranean Transport and Logistics in a Post-COVID-19 Era

The COVID-19 has led to a major disruption of the transport system worldwide. In the Mediterranean region, it has acted as a catalyst for the trends that were already gaining a foothold in ...

14 September, 2021

New MedThink 5 + 5 webinar: Fostering women's economic participation

The MedThink 5 + 5 network organised an online conference on 7 May 2021 (12:00-14:00 CEST) devoted to the issue of fostering women's economic participation in the Western Mediterranean. Entitled ...

29 April, 2021

New Webinar MedThink 5+5: From Crisis to Recovery in the Western Mediterranean

With the aim to analyse the socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis to better understand the challenges of the recovery in the countries of the Western Mediterranean, the MedThink 5+5 ...

12 November, 2020

16th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 5+5 Dialogue

22 October 2020. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 10 countries of the 5+5 Dialogue of the Western Mediterranean gathered by videoconference on the occasion of the 16th Foreign ...

27 October, 2020

MedThink 5+5 Webinar: Towards a Strengthened Health Cooperation

Reflecting on the health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western Mediterranean, the MedThink 5+5 network brought together experts from different countries of the 5+5 Dialogue in a webinar ...

22 May, 2020

8th Ministerial Conference of the 5+5 Dialogue on Migration and Development

The 8th Ministerial Conference of the 5+5 Dialogue on Migration and Development, chaired by Morocco, took place in Marrakech on 1-2 March 2020. Marrakech, 1-2 March 2020. Ministers of ...

10 March, 2020

IV Med Think 5+5 Forum - Malta, 1-2 July 2019

More than 40 experts and representatives of think tanks and diplomatic institutions from the Member States of the 5+5 Dialogue have debated on how to foster an environmentally-friendly and resilient ...

3 July, 2019

IV MedThink 5+5 Forum in Malta

The IVth MedThink 5+5 Forum will be held in Malta between the 1st and 2nd of July, 2019 under the title “Fostering Innovative Alliances in the Western Mediterranean. A Basin of ...

30 April, 2019

Policy Study: The Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus in the Western Mediterranean

The Med Think 5+5 network releases its IV Policy Study, devoted to analysing the interaction between water, food and energy in the Mediterranean. This publication is the outcome of the ...

1 February, 2019

15th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 5+5 Dialogue

The 15th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the “5+5 Dialogue” of the Western Mediterranean was held in Valleta on 18 January 2019, under the Maltese-Algerian co-Presidency on ...

22 January, 2019

Workshop: Transport and logistics in the Western Mediterranean

On the occasion of the 9th Conference of the Group of Western Mediterranean Ministers of Transport (GTMO) in Nouakchott, the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) organised a workshop of ...

13 December, 2018

Celebration of the 9th GTMO 5+5 Meeting in Nouakchott

The 9th Ministerial meeting of Transports of the "Dialogue 5 + 5" was held in Nouakchott on 12th December within the framework of the Group of Ministers of Transports of ...

13 December, 2018

Workshop: Transport and logistics in the Western Mediterranean

Within the framework of cooperation between the Group of Ministers of Transport of the Western Mediterranean (GTMO) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), the interconnection among the members of ...

7 November, 2018

Med Think 5+5 expert appointed Secretary of State of National Defense

Last Wednesday 17 October 2018 the President of the Republic of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa appointed Ana Santos Pinto as the new Secretary of State of Defense during a ...

22 October, 2018

CETMO signs an agreement for an observatory in the Strait of Gibraltar

On last August 8th, a new institutional agreement was signed to carry out a study of transport flows between Europe and Africa in order to improve transport between the two ...

9 August, 2018

III MedThink 5+5 Forum: With a view to the future

After the two previous forums in Barcelona 2016 and Lisbon 2017, the III MedThink 5+5 Forum was held at the El Aurassi Hotel in Algiers last 25-27 June 2018 under ...

2 July, 2018

III MedThink 5+5 Forum in Algiers: Common Challenges, Shared Management

The III MedThink 5+5 Forum will be held in Algiers next 25-27 June 2018 under the title “Human Development as a Driver of Cooperation in the 5+5 Dialogue”. The third ...

10 May, 2018

CETMO finishes its visits to the Maghreb countries

A delegation from the Centre d’Études des Transports pour la Méditerranée Occidentale (CETMO) finalized its cycle of visits around the Maghreb countries in Morocco to continue the preparation of the ...

9 March, 2018

14th Ministerial meeting on Foreign Affairs of the 5+5 Dialogue

The 14th Ministerial meeting on Foreign Affairs of the 5+5 Dialogue was held in Algiers on 21 January, with the Algerian-French co-presidency on the theme "Western Mediterranean: promoting shared, sustainable ...

1 March, 2018

The CETMO participates in the 80th session of the ITC at Geneva

On 20 February a delegation of the Centre d’Études des Transports pour la Méditerranée Occidentale (CETMO) took part in the 80th meeting of the United Nations Committee on Inland Transport ...

1 March, 2018

La Méditerranée Occidentale et le Sahel

Rabat a accueilli un séminaire international sur la sécurité humaine et le développement socio-économique en Méditerranée Occidentale et au Sahel.  Organisé par le réseau de think tanks MedThink 5+5, la ...

24 November, 2017

The management of migrations in the Western Mediterranean

Milan hosted an international seminar on the management of migrations in the Western Mediterranean organized by the think thanks network Medthink 5 + 5, which is coordinated by the IEMed, ...

7 November, 2017

Conflict in Libya: a multidimensional crisis

Cette publication aborde l’état des lieux actuel en Libye et propose des pistes à  suivre pour la stabilisation du pays, notamment en ce qui concerne le rôle des Etats du ...

10 October, 2017

The MedThink 5+5 promoting inclusive socioeconomic development

Propose political channels to stabilise Libya, promote greater economic and financial integration, guarantee food safety in the region, and define policies addressed at youth and prevention of radicalisation. These issues ...

7 July, 2017

The Med Think 5+5 network approves the action plan for 2017

The impact of instability in the Sahel, security and migrations in Libya, greater inclusion of civil society actors and the fostering of economic and commercial integration in the Western Mediterranean. ...

24 January, 2017

First MedThink 5+5 network workshop

Human security, perspectives for the next generations and new forms of co-development have been at the heart of the debate of the first workshop of the Medthink 5+5, the think ...

6 December, 2016

13th 5+5 Dialogue Ministerial meeting on Foreign Affairs

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, France, Italy, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Tunisia and Spain, who met in Marseille on 28 October in the framework of the 5+5 ...

14 November, 2016

The IEMed launches the Med Think 5+5 network

Today in Barcelona, around thirty think tanks and public diplomacy institutions agreed to create the “MedThink 5+5”, a new network of think tanks that will have its technical unit in ...

24 May, 2016