EMS XXVII group photo at the opening day with Hon Dr. Tonio Borg, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta. On his right Amb. Nehad Abdel Latif, Secretary General of the Permanent Secretariat for the Implementation of the Egypt-EU Association Agreement, Cairo; Dr. Ian Lesser, Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund, Washington D.C.; Mr. Tom McGrath, Administrator, EC, External Relations DG.
On his left: Amb. Per E.J. Carlson, Director, Euro-Med Co-ordinator, Sweden; Prof. Stephen Calleya, Director, MEDAC; Prof. Bichara Khader, Director, Centre for Euro-Arab Studies, Universtiy of Louvain, Belgium.