Monday 13 March at 9.30 a.m., Sylken-Berlaymont (formerly Dorint) Hotel, 11-19 Bd Charlemagne, B-1040 Brussels.

EIB Vice-President Philippe de Fontaine Vive will present FEMIP's activities in 2005, as well as the outlook for 2006 in the Mediterranean area. He will comment on the new FEMIP study on remittances made by migrant workers from Europe to their countries of origin in the Mediterranean and sign a cooperation agreement with FEMISE, the Euro-Mediterranean network of economics institutes. He will also answer journalists' questions.