{"id":1329,"date":"2008-07-14T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:09","slug":"the-mediteranean-union-mu-union-for-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"The Mediteranean Union MU \/ Union for the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linked with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/1256\">Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights?<\/a> and with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/1263\">The Med Union, dividing the Middle East and North Africa<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Spain, Slovenia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The Union for the Mediterranean (French: Union pour la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e; previously known as Mediterranean Union, French: Union m\u00e9diterran\u00e9enne) is a community of European Union member states and other countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea established on 13 July 2008[2][3] by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It was proposed by him as an alternative to Turkish membership of the European Union, which would instead form the backbone of the new union,[4] but with the scaling down of plans in March 2008 that idea has been abandoned. When Turkey was offered a guarantee in March 2008 that it would not be an alternative to the EU, Turkey accepted the invitation to participate &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mediterranean_Union\">full, long and complex text on wikipedia<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The Video: <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.co.uk\/videoplay?docid=-1270563454110844402&amp;q=Mediteranean+Union+MU&amp;ei=Sel6SLnmAo_e2AK6sPnBAg&amp;hl=en\">Sarkozy in Tunisia, Mediterranean Union &amp; human rights<\/a>, 4.21 min, added April 30, 2008;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bob-mitchell.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/sarkozy-launches-mediterranean-union.html \">SARKOZY LAUNCHES MEDITERRANEAN UNION TODAY<\/a> (on Shofar Minsitries), July 13, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?hl=en&amp;q=Union%20pour%20la%20M%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9ee&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=nw\">Google news results in french \/ en fran\u00e7ais<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linked with Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights? and with The Med Union, dividing the Middle East and North Africa; (Countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Spain, Slovenia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey). The Union for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1329\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;The Mediteranean Union MU \/ Union for the Mediterranean&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15600,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/15600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}