A new leadership for the Euro-Mediterranean reality

“Regional integration and democracy have to go hand in hand in the Mediterranean as they have done in Europe. The UfM can play an important role,” said Moroccan diplomat Youssef Amrani, who took over as secretary general of the union at a ceremony Tuesday in Barcelona The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), which has struggled since its birth in 2008 to deal with tensions in the Middle East, now faces upheaval in its Arab member states. The new head of a 43-nation Mediterranean union said Tuesday he will support Arab Spring reforms while insisting the West can no longer dictate terms for democracy. “Today reforms and democratic modernisation are the order of the day in most of the countries. The UfM must work and propose projects in the areas of democracy and civil society,”  Read on