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Met dank overgenomen van Europees Economisch en Sociaal Comité (EESC) i, gepubliceerd op vrijdag 31 oktober 2003, 1:54.

Euro-Mediterranean Economic and Social Summit in Malta: 6-7 november 2003

Key issues for this year's conference:

    How to ensure greater involvement at both national and regional level of organised civil society within the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.

    New knowledge, new jobs: the impact of new technologies.

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"The development of an active civil society on the ground is the key to ensuring future economic and social development in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Civil society clearly wants to contribute more to progress and development, and their grassroots participation in the area of economic and social development is crucial for the whole region's long-term prosperity and stability". For Mrs Giacomina Cassina, the European Economic and Social Committee's (EESC) Euromed follow-up Committee President, this is the key issue that the EESC will be pursuing during the Euro-Mediterranean Economic and Social Summit, which takes places in Malta on 6-7 November.

According to Mrs Cassina, the desire for greater involvement of civil society is not as such a political statement: it is more an expressed desire of the grassroots in the respective countries to find practical solutions to the economic and social challenges that exist on the ground and that affect the everyday lives of people.

Reports to be discussed during the Malta Summit:

    Greater involvement of civil society organisations in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership at national and regional level. Information Report to be presented by the EESC, with the support of the Economic and Social Councils of Tunisia and Portugal and the Moroccan National Council for Youth and the Future (Rapporteur Mr Dimitrios Dimitriadis Group 1, Employers, Greece).

    New knowledge, new jobs: the impact of new technologies (to be presented by the French Economic and Social Council in co-operation with the Economic and Social Councils of Algeria, Spain, Greece, Italy and Tunisia).

Trans Euro-Mediterranean Energy Networks - Committee Exploratory Opinion adopted during the October Plenary session (Rapporteur: Mr Bernardo Hernandez Bataller Group III, Various interests, Spain).

    Proposal for the establishment of an Observatory on public debt (to be presented by the Italian, Tunisian and Algerian Economic and Social Councils.

Note: The annual Euro-Mediterranean summits of Economic and Social Councils and similar institutions, which have been held since 1995, seek - on the basis of the Barcelona Declaration to contribute to a better understanding of the major issues relevant in the Euro-Mediterranean partners and to exchange information on their respective economic and social situations.

The EESC, the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD) and the Economic and Social Council of Greece (OKE), have together prepared this year's Summit. The EESC is a permanent member of the preparatory group for Euro-Mediterranean summits and contributes inter alia, by drafting an information report.

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The European Economic and Social Committee represents the various economic and social components of organised civil society. It is an institutional consultative body established by the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Its consultative role enables its members, and hence the organisations they represent, to participate in the Community decision-making process. The Committee has 222 members. Its members are appointed by the Council of Ministers.

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