newsitems Moroco Parliament Speaker Ghellab to EuroFora:High Speed Train Bridge Africa-Europe +Democracy links
Moroco Parliament Speaker Ghellab to EuroFora:High Speed Train Bridge Africa-Europe +Democracy links
*Strasbourg/Council of Europe/Angelo Marcopolo/- Morocco, which is the 1st South Mediterranean Country to be linked to CoE with a "Partnership for Democracy" status, has the Ambition to develop both its Economic/High Tech. and its Democratic/Human Rights Values' links with Europe, replied, in substance, to "EuroFora"s questions the Speaker of Morocco Parliament, Karim Ghellab.
Significantly, during an earlier Debate in CoE's Parliamentary Assembly's Plenary on the 1st Evaluation Report of this New Status, drafted by the President of the biggest political Group, that of ChristianDemocrats/EPP, Italian MEP Luca Volonté, several mainstream MEPs from various EU Countries pointed at the obvious "Strategic" importance of Morocco, (which is also the only Arab Country to have succeeded to keep direct links to the Arab Civilisation, since it fought hard for its Liberty and Independence was never Occupied by the Ottoman-Turk Empire, which destroyed it everywhere else, also its famous Architectrual Heritage reminds.
Replying positively to an "EuroFora" Question about an eventual prospect for a High Speed Train link between the South Mediteranean coast and Europe, (as UK and France, as well as Denmark and Sweden, already have). which could serve along S. Mediterranean Coasts and/or towards a series of Capital Cities accross Africa's Atlantic coasts,
President Ghellab stressed that, indeed, such a Project Exists already, i.e. to build a Modern Bridge between Morocco and Spain, for a High Speed Train link, but this is a very big, Pharaonic project, and it requires, in addition to the necessary Funds, also a careful preparation, so that it could became a Reality in the Future.
But for the Speaker of the Morocco Parliament, the most important point, Today, obviously was the fact that CoE's Assembly, chaired by its President, French MEP Jean-Claude Mignon, quasi-"Unanimously" adopted Volonté's Report, which mainly witnessed Morocco's genuine efforts to advance towards even stronger links and shared Values with Europe on Democracy, Human Rights and Rule of Law, so that, while encouraging the Country to go on and fullfil also some more CoE's Expectations on some issues, (including f.ex.to ensure a bette treatment for Prisoners, etc), the PanEuropean Assembly, nevertheless, already found sufficient positive developments in order to comment the "Dynamic" character of that New Status of "Partnership for Democracy", and express the wish to extend it Succesful application to Morocco also towards other Neighboring Countries, from the Suther Coast of the Medierranean, up to Kazakhstan, etc.
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Strategically located between Paris and Prague, Strasbourg offered a natural location for the French and Czech EU 2008 and 2009 Presidencies to tune their agendas for a resolute European move towards Renewable Energies, during an exceptional Joint Parliamentary meeting on "Energy and Sustainable Development", co-organized here by the Presidents of EU Parliament, Hans Gert Poettering, French National Assembly, Bernard Accoyer, and Senate, Gerard Larcher, on November 20 and 21.
Concluded by a busy-looking French super-Minister of Energy, Environment and Regional planning, Jean-Louis Borloo, the exceptional gathering of Top MPs from all 27 EU States' Parliaments hoped that a Ministerial meeting prepared by Borloo, will pave the way to an overall agreement at the level of EU Heads of State and Government Summit chaired on December 2008 by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, allowing the next EU chair, the Czech Republic, to start working from the beginning of 2009 on concrete measures.
Speaking to "EuroFora" President Accoyer resumed the general feeling by stressing that "Europe has no Oil-Gas resources, but an important Scientific-Technologic potential. Therefore, we must develop Renewable Energy sources". "Since the Sun is the most abundant and free RES, we must do the outmost to boost Solar Energy" solutions, he added, at the eve of a special meeting on Solar energy and the Mediterranean organised by Borloo on Saturday.
Oil-gas supplies' security and diversification were also examined by the EU gathering, after which, President Accoyer replied to our question on risks of long, expensive and fragile pipe-lines' projects, crossing through foreign countries out of the EU, compared to new possibilities for Sea and River Ship direct EU transport even of Gas, thanks to New Liquification technologies : - "We have just écreated the Union for the Mediterranean for concrete projects like these", Accoyer stressed, speaking of Sea-River Ship Highways, fundeable under EU's TENS programs.
Rapporteur on "Energy innovation and sustainable development", Dr. Bedrich Moldan, vice-President of Czech Senate's Environment and Regional Development Committee, added that Climat issues, price uncertainties and diminution of accessible Fossil energies, played together with EU's RST potential in order to make RES both a need and "an opportunity". However, in cases as "Solar Energy, even if the main Scientific ideas are already here, we have to make some technologic breakthroughs in order to find how to produce it on a large scale, store and transport it", Dr. Moldan added to "EuroFora".
Czech interest for RES was also expressed, earlier in Strasbourg, by Jan Kohout, the deputy Minister pf Foreign Affairs who participated to a workshop on "Renewable Energies" organized by the French EU 2008 Presidency : - "The focus is on Development", he told us.
On this and other RES issues, Dr. Moldan anounced the Czech EU 2009 chair's intention to organize an important 2-days Conference on Renewable Energies and Sustainable Development late January 2009 at nearby Prague.