Mediterranean Day (also known as International Day of the Mediterranean and Day of the Mediterranean) is the
annual commemoration of the foundation of the
Barcelona Process
The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM; french: Union pour la Méditerranée, ar, الإتحاد من أجل المتوسط ''Al-Ittiḥād min ajl al-Mutawasseṭ'') is an intergovernmental organization of 43 member states from Europe and the M ...
on 28 November 1995. It is celebrated in the
Mediterranean Basin
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, as well as in the
European Union
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countries.
Background
The Barcelona Process was launched in the Euro-Mediterranean Conference in Barcelona on 28 November 1995 with the aim of strengthening relations between Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries. On that date, the ministers of Foreign Affairs of the
EU and 12 southern and eastern Mediterranean countries held the conference and signed an agreement to launch the
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Process. The Barcelona Process was born as a new dialogue framework out of a vocation to convert the Mediterranean region into a common space for peace, stability, security and shared socio-economic progress and dialogue between peoples.
The Barcelona Process would lead to the creation of the
Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)"The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: from the Barcelona Process to the Union for the Mediterranean"
http://www.exteriores.gob.es/; accessed Dec 2020 in 2008.
The first Day of the Mediterranean was celebrated on 28 of November 2021, wit
over 75 activities in 18 Euro-Mediterranean countries
Footnotes
References
Further reading
* Joffe, George; Vasconcelos, Alvaro. The Barcelona Process: Building a Euro-Mediterranean Regional Community. Routledge, 2000. {{ISBN, 0714651095
External links
Day of the Mediterranean (website)Statement of UfM Member states declaring the Day of the Mediterranean (PDF)
*N1 Media outlet Croatia
November 28 declared Day of the Mediterranean
*European Union Neighbours
The International Day of the Mediterranean is born
*Spanish News Agency Europa Press
*Italian News Agency Ansamet
*News outlet Econostrum
*Spanish Presidential Ministry Press Release: [https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/gobierno/news/Paginas/2020/20201127mediterranean-day.aspx "Arancha González Laya announces agreement of foreign ministers of Union for the Mediterranean to declare 28 November as "Mediterranean Day"]
International organization days
Mediterranean
November observances