Euromed University represented in Barcelona at the EIBMED 2023 conference

Representing Euromed University of Fes, Prof. Hafsa El Bekri, a teacher-researcher at the Euromed Business School of UEMF and co-director of the Research Institute for European, Mediterranean, and African Studies (RIEMAS), traveled to Barcelona to participate in the EIB MED conference held on July 10, 2023. This event was organized by EIB Global in partnership with the Union for the Mediterranean. During this conference, Prof. El Bekri took part in an interview with H.E. Ambassador Senén Florensa - President of the European Institute of the Mediterranean.

This edition of the EIB MED conference brought together several governmental, commercial, banking and political partners from the Mediterranean region. In her intervention, Prof. Hafsa El Bekri highlighted three key messages: first, the need for nearshoring to bridge the gap in regional integration across the Euro-Mediterranean region. Next, she underscored the untapped potential of companies in the southern Mediterranean and the requirements for designing value chains in the Euro-Med region. In conclusion to her intervention, she addressed the necessity for the southern shore of the Mediterranean and African countries more broadly to build their own narrative on climate change in order to avoid a kind of trade-off between obtaining European EIB funds or seeking new partners with a more permissive approach.

This conference was an excellent opportunity to discuss new ways to revive the economy in the southern Mediterranean region and to address the cause of the energy shock, which has been particularly concerning recently.