The Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP, in Turkish acronym) is a regional development project aimed at full-fledged socio-economic development of the Upper Mesopotamia.
On the 16th February 2005 the Kyoto Protocol came into effect, after seven years of finalizing negotiations and thirteen years after adopting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Rio de Janeiro.
The Arab countries have demonstrated progress in many of the MDGs. However, progress varies, across the sub-regions, at the country level, and from goal to goal.
On November 25th, 2005, the city of Barcelona organised a "Conference of Euro-Mediterranean Cities" within the framework of the tenth anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
Resulting from a three-year interactive preparatory process, the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD) was finalized in 2005, at a very appropriate period.
Los proyectos de formación turística deberían acompañarse del desarrollo de infraestructuras para ofrecer un destino competitivo basado en la calidad de los servicios.
From an energy point of view, 2005 has been a very convulsive year. On an international level, fears that there may be an energy crisis equivalent to that of the seventies of the last century have increased.
In recent decades, Europe has experienced an important development in geo-economic axes. The territories that form the north western Mediterranean have been forming one of the principal axes of growth on the continent.
The Plan Bleu course of action, published in 1989, depicted the possible prospects of one of the richest regions of the world in terms of history and diversity but also one of the most vulnerable ones.
The year 2004 was marked by a major increase in crude oil prices: in December 2003 the international price of a barrel stood at USD 29.29, while by November 2004 it had already reached USD 44.49/barrel.
El papel del Magreb en el espacio euromediterráneo está condicionado a las políticas europeas en el caso del gas y al interés de las empresas en el del crudo.
Recuperar la sostenibilidad medioambiental y aprovechar la unidad cultural son los aspectos básicos para que el Mediterráneo sea de nuevo un referente turístico.