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Union for the Mediterranean
Context: This text summarizes the Union for the Mediterranean's 30th anniversary and its role in regional cooperation.
The Union for the Mediterranean marked its 30th anniversary at the 10th Regional Forum in Barcelona, bringing together the 43-member forum that includes EU institutions and riparian governments from Algeciras to Istanbul.
The forum's longevity is tied to its focus on practical, low-key cooperation projects that allow continued engagement across regional crises, and its role as one of the few spaces where the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority can engage directly.
El Pais highlights the forum's survival through crises and its pragmatic political utility, encapsulated by the unwritten motto to 'cling to the concrete'.
Forum's pragmatic role
El País emphasizes that the forum's chief political virtue is its mere existence as a space where opposing poles such as the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority can engage.
The report frames this as a pragmatic, non-ideological function: maintaining dialogue and focusing on concrete cooperation projects enables continued contact even when political crises erupt elsewhere in the region.
Forum continuity and limits
The forum's agenda and method, favoring practical cooperation over headline diplomacy, allowed it to continue meeting through crises in Libya and Gaza, according to El País.
That continuity is presented as both a political achievement and a limitation: while it preserves channels for dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the forum's low-key approach may not address deeper political grievances or urgent humanitarian crises in a direct or forceful manner.
Source limitations and scope
The provided material from El País does not detail specific outcomes from the 10th Regional Forum.
The snippet does not include first‑hand statements from Israeli or Palestinian officials.
The article notes the forum’s role and longevity but does not mention battlefield actions, allegations of genocide, or specific humanitarian findings.
Therefore I cannot assert or amplify such claims beyond what El País reports.
Any stronger claims about Israeli military actions or accusations of genocide are not present in the supplied source and would be beyond the scope of this summary.