Press Release: Commissioner Dimas convenes high-level meeting to clean up the Mediterranean region by 2020

Preview of a high-level Euro-Mediterranean Partnership meeting in Barcelona on 19 December 2005. At the meeting it was planned to launch an initiative to de-pollute the Mediterranean region by 2020. The ‘Horizon 2020’ initiative had been endorsed by the Heads of State and Government of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership at their Barcelona summit on 27-28 November 2005.

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Friends of the Earth Europe (et al.): Press Release, 21.12.05: EuroMediterranean Environmental High level meeting - de-pollution initiative http://www.foeeurope.org/press/2005/EC_21_Dec_depolution.htm

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