AFAEMME’s President meets EU’s Commissioner responsible for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy

Published by P. Horvath, March 11th, 2009 Barcelona (Spain)

On March 10th 2009 Mrs. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Commissioner responsible for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy visited Barcelona. As part of Mrs. Ferrero-Waldner’s agenda, a dinner was hosted by the Major of Barcelona, Mr. Jordi Hereu, in Catalonia’s National Museum of Art. The event gathered a group of public figures representing the Mediterranean basin, including Mrs. Mª Helena de Felipe Lehtonen, President of AFAEMME.

The guests had the opportunity to interchange impressions with Mrs. Ferrero-Waldner, who also transmitted the support of the European Commission to the establishment, in Barcelona, of the Secretariat for the Union for the Mediterranean.