{"id":19059,"date":"2020-05-29T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T08:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/?p=19059"},"modified":"2020-05-29T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T08:50:07","slug":"covid-19-med-brief-no1-implications-of-the-coronavirus-crisis-in-the-mediterranean-and-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/slideshow-en\/covid-19-med-brief-no1-implications-of-the-coronavirus-crisis-in-the-mediterranean-and-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 MED BRIEF no1 : Implications of the coronavirus crisis in the Mediterranean and in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Banner-CMI-FEMISE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1184\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Banner-CMI-FEMISE.png 1184w, https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Banner-CMI-FEMISE-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Banner-CMI-FEMISE-768x198.png 768w, https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Banner-CMI-FEMISE-1024x265.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Banner-CMI-FEMISE-624x161.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1184px) 100vw, 1184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The recent coronavirus crisis threatens the health, economies and societies of all countries. In Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries, the fight against the pandemic is even more complicated. Cooperation and EU-Med strategies in key sectors are needed. Therefore, the <strong>Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI)<\/strong> and <strong>FEMISE<\/strong> join forces and launch their joint series of Policy Briefs called \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/slideshow-en\/call-for-policy-briefs-covid-19-med-briefs-27-juin-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19 MED BRIEFS<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>to pave the way for thematic analyses and policy relevant recommendations. <\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CMI-FEM-Brief-1-Tsakas-VGB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19044 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2020-05-25-\u00e0-10.29.00.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2020-05-25-\u00e0-10.29.00.png 490w, https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2020-05-25-\u00e0-10.29.00-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/strong><\/a>The\u00a0first COVID-19 MED BRIEF, entitled \u201cImplications of the coronavirus crisis in the Mediterranean and in the Middle East\u201d, by Constantin Tsakas (FEMISE, IM), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CMI-FEM-Brief-1-Tsakas-VGB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is available by clicking\u00a0<strong>here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Summary :\u00a0<\/strong>The recent coronavirus crisis threatens the health, economies and societies of any country, regardless of its level of development. In the countries of the Middle East and of the Southern Mediterranean the fight against the pandemic is even more complicated. It must be done with limited healthcare and economic resources compared to other regions. In addition, it takes place in a social and geopolitical context which is unique in its divisions. This Brief suggests relaunching cooperation in the Mediterranean following the crisis and developing EU-Med strategies in key sectors. In this context, it provides reflections, on the short term and long term, to prevent a \u00abpandemic of inequalities\u00bb in the region. It suggests opening-up access to healthcare for informal workers, investing in digital technology, rethinking production chains intelligently, supporting social entrepreneurship and reviewing the conditions for debt repayment for countries in the region. The purpose of this Brief is to pave the way for more thematic analyzes and prescriptions, which can be explored throughout this series produced jointly by the CMI and FEMISE.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><i>This Policy Brief is produced as part of the series of Policy Briefs on \u00ab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/slideshow-en\/call-for-policy-briefs-covid-19-med-briefs-27-juin-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Responding to the Challenges of COVID-19 in the Mediterranean<\/a> \u00bb that is undertaken in partnership between FEMISE and the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI).<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent coronavirus crisis threatens the health, economies and societies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[248,7,4],"tags":[792,1529,1531,487,1519,1520,1530,330,1521,286,1502,1116,463,495,496,1137,1138,319,505,329,1528],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19106,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059\/revisions\/19106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}