The Euro-Mediterranean Assembly of Local and Regional Authorities (ARLEM) seeks tangible action

As the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) nears the end of negotiations on its structure and work programme, local and regional representatives have not let the grass grow under their feet. Over seventy local and regional representatives from thirty countries around the three shores of the Mediterranean met in Barcelona today, Thursday 21 January, for the inaugural meeting of the Euro-Mediterranean Assembly of Local and Regional Authorities (ARLEM). They called on EU Commissioner, Paweł Samecki, and Spanish State Secretary, Ángel Lossada Torres-Quevedo, to ensure an “inclusive process” and to give “priority to tangible action”