The European Commission will finance the new programme starting next year in the framework of the cooperation between Egypt and the European Union. Furthermore, I will have the great pleasure together with Dr. Farouk El Okdah, Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt to host tomorrow, 27 November, in Alexandria a high level EuroMediterranean seminar, brining together Eurosystem and Mediterranean central banks.
I look very much forward to the seminar, which is a very useful platform for discussions and exchanges of views with our friends and colleagues from Mediterranean central banks on issues of mutual interest from a central banking perspective. 4  BIS Review 148/2008