The results of our trial might explain, in part, the lower cardiovascular mortality in Mediterranean countries than in northern European countries of the United States.
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It does indeed conclude that in many of the Mediterranean countries households have greater net worth than households in, say, Germany.
We also see whilst our numbers have been flat in the last year, numbers rising significant in countries like France and the other thing that has to be remembered is that in the Southern European countries which border the Mediterranean they have hundreds of thousands of people who for whom no official records exist on top of all the asylum seekers.
And I promised President Obama the renewed intention of Italy to provide not only the necessary resources and women and men for these tasks, but also the knowledge and expertise that Italy may have, as regards particularly some countries in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern region, due to geographic and historical links.
France, the biggest recipient of CAP funds (though not of total EU spending), has been the staunchest defender of the CAP in its present form, backed by the Mediterranean countries that also have big farm lobbies.
Many countries in the Mediterranean basin could face a future of significant food and water shortages as climate change bites and deserts spread.
Cyprus is one of a handful of countries in the Eastern Mediterranean with a firm claim on one of the largest natural gas finds in the region, offering access to an estimated 50 to 60 tcf of gas and 1.7 billion barrels of crude in waters off its southeastern coast.
In Europe, in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia and now in the Arab world, sudden events and slow-moving trends bring us into a new world -- in the Pacific and in the Mediterranean -- and we welcome the new global governments in the G20, reflecting the growing influence of emerging countries as well as their new responsibilities.
In the euro's first decade, southern Mediterranean countries enjoyed the benefit of lower interest rates, but they failed to reform their labour and product markets to make their economies more competitive for a world in which they had lost the safety-valve of currency devaluation.
For one, the benefit against the metabolic syndrome was found mostly in studies conducted in Mediterranean countries, and not in countries outside of that region.
With a fiscal position little better than most of the Mediterranean countries' and a far larger banking system than in any other European economy, Britain with the euro would have been Ireland to the power of eight.
Mediterranean countries subsidized power companies with overly generous feed-in tariffs to stimulate the renewable sector.
Now, in three countries that between them occupy 2, 000 miles of Mediterranean coastline, the hard work has begun of shaping what's next.
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