Euro-Mediterranean countries ready to cooperate on energy

摘要

Meeting on 19 July in Nicosia for an informal Council, the member states' research ministers, joined by their counterparts from the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), tentatively agreed to step up scientific and technical cooperation between the Northern and Southern shores of the Mediterranean. They failed, on the other hand, to build consensus on the new simplified financing model proposed by the European Commission for its future R&D framework programme, Horizon 2020.