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Press Releases / Publications / Statements

October 2007		Press Release 22 October 2007/FoEE 59 Mandelson ignoring Mediterranean poverty warning Med free trade talks progress, disregarding Commission's own impact study
September 2007		Letter The negative impacts of free trade in the EuroMediterranean area Letter to EU Trade Ministers
July 2007		Statement Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) of the Euro- Mediterranean Free Trade Area (EMFTA) - Friends of the Earth MedNet submission to the stakeholder consultation of 10 July 2007
May 2007		Statement Statement by the Comité de Suivi (CdS) to the 12th Meeting of the Mediterranean Commission for Sustainable Development (MCSD) in Istanbul, 30th-31st May
November 2006		Press release 28 November 2006/FoEE 101 Euromed foreign minsters neglect Mediterranean environment and citizens - Euromed Foreign Ministers' meeting in Tampere fails to integrate sustainable development into initiatives for 2007
November 2006		Statement NGO statement following the Environment Council in Cairo
November 2006		Press release 20 November 2006/FoEE 97 EU neglecting key environmental problems in Mediterranean - Environment Ministers meeting in Cairo fails to tackle major Mediterranean environmental issues
October 2006		Letter 30 October 2006 Letter to the Finnish Presidency about preliminary findings of the Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area
August 2006		Press release 25 September 2006/FoEE 75 Lebanon asks UNEP to assess environmental damage of Hizbullah-Lebanon war- Friends of the Earth urges Israel to follow suit
August 2006		Press release 17 August 2006/FoEE 64 Friends of the Earth urges UNEP to assess environmental damage of Hizbullah-Israel war - UN and EU should help NGOs start large-scale oil cleanup in Lebanon
August 2006		Press release 3 August 2006/FoEE 61 Friends of the Earth welcomes EU plan to help Lebanon deal with oil catastrophe - Israeli army must guarantee that cleanup operations will be safe
June 2006		Background Paper Dangers and opportunities in Euro-Med trade talks By Fouad Hamdan, Friends of the Earth Europe Director
May 2006		Position Paper Position paper on the Horizon 2020 Roadmap to depollute the Mediterranean By the Mediterranean Environmental NGO Networks / Comité de Suivi
April 2006		Official contribution Contribution to the European Commission consutlation on the Horizon 2020 initiative to depollute the Mediterranean By the Mediterranean Environmental NGO Networks / Comité de Suivi
March 2006		Press release 27 March 2006/FoEE 27 35 Euro-Med States go for liberalization before assessing impact - NGOs demand freezing further liberalization until study is released
		Press release 23 March 2006/FoEE 25 NGOs call for a moratorium on Euromed trade liberalisations negociations
		Letter Letter to Euromed Trade Ministers and EU Commissioners concerning the need for a moratorium on Euromed trade liberalisation negotiations pending final recommendations of the Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Euromed Free Trade Area.
December 2005		Position Paper The Comité de Suivi outlines groundrules for launching the Horizon 2020 Mediterranean depollution initiative
		Press release 21 November 2005/FoEE 104 EuroMediterranean Environmental High level Meeting de-pollution Initiative: Environmental NGOs welcome commitments on cleaning up the Mediterranean by 2020
November 2005		Press release 30 November 2005/FoEE 91 10 th Anniversary Summit on the EuroMed partnership: Environmental NGOs welcome commitments on sustainable development and depollution
		Press release 24 November 2005/FoEE 89 Environmental NGOs appeal to the Barcelona extraordinary meeting of Head of States or Government to give central importance to sustainable development in the future work of the EuroMediterranean partnership
		Position Paper "Mediterranean Free trade – costly and no real benefit foreseen" Comité de Suivi's position paper on the Sustainability Impact Assessment Phase II of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area
		Open letter Environmental NGO Open Letter to Mediterranean Heads of Government Summit, Barcelona, 27-28 November 2005 By the Comité de Suivi
October 2005		Report Meeting Mediterranean NGOs evaluate 10 years of the EuroMed partnership
September 2005		Open letter Mediterranean NGO letter to Commission on agricultural Trade liberalisation proposals in the region
July 2005		Open letter NGOs open letter to the UK presidency On the EuroMed Partnership, on behalf of Mediterranean environmental NGOs
June 2005		Press release 18 June 2005/FoEE 51 Friends of the Earth challenges EUROMED finance ministers to be coherent on sustainable development
		Press release 07 June 2005/FoEE 46 Euromed Foreign Ministers incoherent on sustainable development in the Euromediterranean Partnership
May 2005		Open letter NGOs open letter to President Barroso With reference to the recent Communications of the Commission about the Euro- Mediterranean Partnership. On behalf of Mediterranean environmental NGOs See answer of President Barroso, Sept 2005
May 2005		Press release 04 May 2005/FoEE 32 Environmental NGOs challenge Barroso on Commission's Euromed Sustainable Development "incoherence"

The Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Euro-Med Free Trade Area