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Inside this issue:

Editor’s letter 2

News in brief 2

Discovering Places:

Much ado about exclaves

3

Feature: Ceuta and Melilla 4-5

Interview: James Aldcroft 6

News in brief 7

Calendar of Events 8

EURO-MERNET NEWS April 2014

VOLUME I ISSUE I

Monthly newsletter of the Euro-Mediterranean Resources Network

ISSN: 2055-3153

F ollowing their tireless and peaceful campaign, including a

big demonstration outside Hove Town Hall, the community and vol-

untary groups in Brighton and Hove celebrated the good news that their grants would not be cut this year.

The Brighton and Hove City Council had been discussing since

last year the options on saving money on this year’s budget. The

final proposal before the Council’s budget discussion meeting in Feb-ruary 2014 indicated the possibility of a 10% cut to both annual and 3-year discretionary grants to the vol-untary and community sector. The

proposed cut would enable the Council to save £165K from the budget for the period of 2014-2015.

Community and voluntary groups, largely coordinated by the Brighton and Hove Community

Works, formerly known as Commu-

nity and Voluntary Sector Forum, or CVSF, started campaigning on popular level and lobbying on the Council level earlier this year, pressing for saving of the commu-nity grants from the axe.

A number of councillors, includ-

ing those from the opposition par-ties, put forward amendments to the proposed budget and defended

the amendments at the budget discussion and voting session at Hove Town Hall on 27 February.

In a show of unified voices of concern and the solidarity between the community organisations and activist groups, a rally was organ-ised just outside Hove Town Hall, with the participation of a hugely

diverse crowd that included the

members of charities, trade un-ions, grassroots activists, political parties, and individual supporters who had benefited from the vital services provided for them.

Some demonstrators at the

rally also talked to the elected Councillors and expressed their concerns about the imminent deep impact of the proposed cuts on the service user communities.

The peaceful rally did not only represent a vivid example of the

undeniable democratic right to ex-ercise freedom of speech, assem-bly and action by the groups, it also displayed on the ground a pic-turesque diversity of causes, back-grounds, political and humanitarian stances, and of course colourful

and innovative banners and plac-ards. Euro-Mernet team actively took part in the rally, carrying our own placards and also helping

Brighton & Hove City Council listens to the voice of the communities

Mass action saves community grants

other participants with extra sup-plies of posters, placards and sta-tionery.

The firm good news that the

continuous hard work by the cam-paigning organisations and individu-als resulted in the reversal of the proposed cut to grants arrived in the first week of March. In the light

of the “deep shave” of the charita-ble funds by national and local au-

thorities for the last three years, it was definitely not an occasion for champagne celebration, but the restoration of priceless smiles was more worthwhile, as many agreed.

Community and voluntary

groups across Brighton and Hove have been providing unique, vital and high quality services. And the city’s population express their de-pendence on such services and

their gratitude to the committed work of community groups.

Although the community grants were saved for this year, there is no guarantee that they would be available in the Council’s 2015-2016 budget. Perhaps, as told by a demonstrator on the ground: “do not bury your placards deep under

the pile of stuff in your attic yet. Keep them stacked behind the door as you may need them very soon.”

www.euromernet.org

Dan Alves Coordinator of European Placement Net-work, Bristol, visited our office recently. Our organisa-tions have been collaborating on intern placements for over five years now, initially through their France-based parent organisation, Apreca.

Editor’s letter

Dear friends; it is the spring

season! Like the changing

weather, nature’s revival and the

rejoice of the human spirit, we

have the joy of delivering you the

very first issue of our newsletter.

We bring you all our recent

news so that you could say “I

know what you did last month!”

We would love to hear your feed-

back.

After having heard many dis-

cussions on Crimea, we decided to

look at some different land dis-

putes across the region. In Chiara

and Margarita’s piece on page 3,

We tried to show how the disputes

on these lands were finally re-

solved in the form of exclaves.

Anna wrote a longer piece

about two other exclaves, Ceuta

and Melilla, with highlights on mi-

grants and human rights.

Marie interviewed the local food

safety expert James Aldcroft, who

innocently believed that he was

invited to our office only for a free

Mediterranean breakfast. But

eventually, with his highly infor-

mative answers, James was

awarded his well-earned breakfast!

A healthy lifestyle is as impor-

tant as the Mediterranean diet. So

if you have not done so already,

please start on exercising right

now, maybe with some long

walks? It is a long way for a New

Year’s resolution! Thanks for loving

and caring for yourselves.

Ümit Öztürk, Editor

As part of our agreement with the City College Brigh-

ton and Hove on hosting local volunteers and interna-

tional interns, our office was visited by a health and

safety expert for the assessment of compliance and

safety risks. We were humbled to hear the commen-

dation that our paperwork, compliance, competence

levels, firm and in depth knowledge of the legislation,

and our vision for future were “much better than very

big organisations with over 100 employees”. And,

yes, the inspector commended our refreshments, too!

WEBSITE TRAINING... Euro-Mernet team heard the

very basics of updating a web page by using Word-

Press techniques. The training briefing, delivered by

our intern, Luca Baroncini, was also the first training

session in which all regular team members actively

participated. Luca has been developing a training

package in the recent months for the seven full-time

interns which would enable them to develop skills on

updating the pages on our website. Luca is also in the

process of creating dedicated blog space on our web-

site for our past, current and future team members.

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Discovering places...

Research and report by Chiara Pe-gorini and Margarita Yordanova

W hile most of us would

generally envisage that countries are and should be some-how contiguous, tangled pieces of land completely surrounded by the territory of a foreign state find place on the map of the world.

Hundreds of these small parcels

of land exist, and many of them have developed into tourist attrac-tions, owing almost entirely to their border situation and the socio-economic and political advantages this affords.

In many ways the study of these ‘hidden’ territories help us understand elements of interna-tional relations, geopolitics and his-tory in microcosmic terms.

On the one side is the odd and confusing dichotomous reality of

the village, which arouses curiosity

and wonderment; on the other are cooperation and harmony, which might perhaps serve as a model for multicultural and multinational life.

In the wake of the recent inter-national debate as to what part of

Ukraine belongs to which country, we thought our readers may find the following three examples of ex-claves interesting.

Over the next two pages, we had a detailed look at another ex-

ample, Ceuta and Melilla.

Büsingen am Hochrhein("Buesingen on the Upper Rhine") is

a German town entirely sur-rounded by Swiss territory. It has a population of about 1,450 inhabi-tants. Since the early 19th century, the town has been separated from the rest of Germany by a narrow strip of land of only 700 m.

After the First World War, a ref-erendum was held in Büsingen in

which 96% of voters chose to be-come part of Switzerland. However, it never happened as Switzerland could not offer anything suitable in

exchange, and consequently Büsin-gen has remained an exclave of Germany ever since.

Owing to its unusual geographi-cal location, Büsingen benefits from both German and Swiss socio-economic and political advantages.

To send a letter to Büsingen, one can send it using either a Swiss postal code or a German one.

The local football team, FC Büs-ingen, is the only German team to play in the Swiss Football League.

Büsingen is highly regarded as a holiday destination in summer by both German and Swiss visitors from around the area for its recrea-tional areas along the Rhine.

Campione d’Italia is an Italian

town of 2,121 inhabitants of the province of Como. It is an Italian

exclave in the Swiss territory of Canton Ticino, separated from Italy

by Lugano Lake and the Alps. The first time the city was men-

tioned in recorded history was around the end of the 6th century, with the settlement of the Lombards.

Campione went through a

strong growth in tourism construc-tion especially after the opening of the well-known Casino, completely rebuilt in 1999 thanks to Mario

Botta, an Italian architect. The town is strongly integrated

from an economic viewpoint with Switzerland. They use either the Euro or the Swiss Franc and the licence plates are Swiss. There are several monuments and places of interests, such as the Church of San Zenone, documented

in 756, built in a baroque style and deconsecrated in 1967. Nowadays

is used as a gallery for art exhibi-tions. The Church of Santa Maria dei Ghirli, place of pilgrimage, which contains stunning frescoes

from the 13th to the 18th century. The Church of San Pietro, docu-mented in 1148, (which) is located at the ancient entrance of the town.

The Saudi–Iraqi neutral zone was a diamond-shaped area of 7,044 km² on the border between

Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The Uqair Convention in 1922

defined the boundaries between the

two countries and created the neu-tral zone. Nobody could build any military or permanent building across the zone.

The Saudis and Iraqis decided to split their zone in 1975, but the

agreement was not filed with the United Nations so nobody outside Iraq and Saudi Arabia knew the details of the new boundary.

With the Gulf War in 1991, Sad-

dam Hussein cancelled all interna-tional treaties with Saudi Arabia

since 1968 and the Saudis re-sponded by ending the existence of the Saudi – Iraqi neutral zone.

Nowadays there are no active fights involving the boundaries be-tween the two countries. Most maps draw the border line approximately

through the centre of the territory, rather than a precise one.

Exclaves in the region: small parts apart...


Lands that landed on the neighbour’s lands...

Büsingen am Hochrhein waterside homes

© Wikipedia/Creative Commons GNU-FDL

Büsingen am Hochrhein: flags ’r’ us...

© Wikipedia/Creative Commons GNU-FDL Campione d’Italia: little Italy by Swiss lake


Neutral Zone: gone with the winds of desert.


Ceuta & Melilla: Tourists welcome... but migrants not, apparently.

C euta and Melilla are two Spanish autonomous cities

and exclaves situated on the

North African coast inside Mo-roccan territories.

Ceuta and Melilla belonged to Spain until 1995 when the

city’s Statute of Autonomy was passed. In both of these cities Spanish is the official language

and the population is formed by Christians, Muslims and a small Jewish community.

The Moroccan government has always been against the Spanish presence in its territo-

ries; in 1975 it asked for the annexation of Ceuta and it commanded parts of both cities till 2002 when the Spanish army fought against the Moroc-

can soldiers to bring them un-der their control.

Ceuta and Melilla are par-ticular examples of special member state territories situ-ated outside the European Un-ion: because of their position, they are fenced-in with a bor-der barrier.

Ceuta’s first few kilometres

of fence were constructed all around the land by Spain in 1993, with the excuse to stop the “illegal immigration.”

The fence consists of paral-lel 3-metre fences topped with barbed wire, with noise and movement sensors and video

cameras to keep the entire bor-der under control.

The Spanish government,

in collaboration with the Fron-tex agency, has increased the fence’s height from three to six meters. Now the border fences are 9.7 km long around Ceuta and 8.2 km around Melilla.

Until 2005 there were five loosely built camps in Nador near Melilla and in Bel Younech forest near Ceuta where thou-

sands of Sub-Saharan African migrants lived.

They have been regularly

trying to pass the fences to enter into European territories and some of them have been living there for years now, waiting for the “right time.”

Over the last few years, life for migrants have become

more difficult. Starting from the end of 2004, the European Un-ion has put some pressure on the Moroccan government, ac-

cusing it of being not able to defend its borders properly.

Subsequently, since 2005, the Moroccan and Spanish

army have increased their con-trol under the “illegal camp” and around the borders.

In 2005, when the Spanish king Juan Carlos visited the cities, over 1200 members of the Moroccan and Spanish se-curity forces raided various camps in the middle of the

night, destroying and burning everything on their path.

They arrested two hundred “illegal” sub-Saharan immi-

grants and brought some of them to the border between Morocco and Algeria in a semi-

desert area where there was no water, food or shelter.

Some of the migrants were taken into police departments to wait for their deportation. After the raids, some migrants came together to organise

Special Feature


Anna Vinciguerra looks at the case of the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, with references to the ways they were ruled throughout the history and the current problems faced by asylum seekers and migrants .

Fences across Ceuta © Wikipedia/Creative Commons GNU-FDL Fort by the marina in Ceuta © Brent Pin

Ceuta & Melilla: Tourists welcome... but migrants not, apparently.

themselves in the form of loose groups inside the forest.

Throughout September and October 2005 a total of almost

seven hundred migrants as-sailed the separate locations across the border fences a number of times.

In a fashion of ruthless re-sponse, the Moroccan and

Spanish police reacted by

shooting at them and as a re-sult they killed 11 of the dem-onstrators. Victims of such bru-tal reactions also faced the danger of being injured with the barbed wire. Three hundred

of the migrants succeeded in entering into Spanish zone.

During the last year, 3000 migrants attempted to cross the Spanish borders. Only last summer hundreds of African migrants have attempted to

smash their way across the fences, but failed repeatedly.

The human rights organisa-tions suggest that there are 20-25 thousand “illegal migrants” who still live near Ceuta and Melilla. Some of them were in-

jured fighting against police or attempting to cross the beach to enter into the Spanish zone.

These events are still ongo-ing. On 16th of February 2014, 15 migrants drowned while they were swimming to Ceuta

because the Spanish border guards shot rubber bullets at them.

Later on in February 2014, the European Union formally asked Spain to provide an ex-

planation as to why the Span-

ish police fired rubber bullets. On 28th February, 2014,

around 200 migrants climbed over the fence and reached the Ceti (the centre for temporary residence) in Melilla. Most of

them come from Cameroon and Guinea, and they risk expelling as the centre is overcrowded.

The centre currently hosts 1300 people but an annex is being built to increase the ca-pacity for hosting a further

480 people. Last month more than 500

people, the highest number for a decade, stormed their way into Melilla. By sneaking up to the crossing under the dense fog, the migrants rushed to

climb over the high wire fence that separates the exclave from the Moroccan border.

Reportedly around 300 of them were arrested and 30 were injured. Although no fa-talities were reported on this

occasion, deaths are not un-usual in such desperate at-tempts by migrants who wish to have access to better living conditions in Europe.

Regular reports suggest

that a huge migrant community

live without legal residence rights in Morocco and they con-stantly watch for the next available opportunity to enter Melilla or Ceuta.

Desperate attempts often

result in fatalities, either by accidental fall or drowning, or by the brutal force used by the police on both sides of the bor-ders.

Fifteen men were reported dead during the incident, but

the Spanish authorities stated that this was purely due to the panic caused by the sound of shots fired by the police as a warning.

Will the hopes and ordeal of these migrants ever come to an

end? It seems that the previous will never, and the latter not so terribly soon.

Special Feature

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Fences across Melulla © Wikipedia/Creative Commons GNU-FDL Maps of Ceuta and Melulla

Interview with a guest...

Do you think it will be more controlled?

With funding cuts for organizations like the environmental health in-spectors, we will be more weight of responsibility on the shoulders of business owners. Many businesses

will be expected to self inspect and

check their own standards rather than having inspectors coming in on a regular basis. And without the training there will be an increase in the use of online training.

And this online trainings – is it your future path as well?

For some of the business I think it is. This year I’m going to start online training. But I hope to still have a core of face to face training

what I do believe is more success-ful. But I think the good model

would be if the staff had real time face to face training and then also a refreshing online training. Online is good for information but it isn’t

very engaging. If somebody has a question about how to cook a chicken, the online training proba-bly won’t have an answer.

Any other planned projects in the near future?

Yes, I am quite excited about the

prospect of new training projects in

Turkey with Euro-Mernet. I believe

it will really influence me and a lot

of people in Europe. And I think,

truthfully, the online service is

something I am quite excited

about. The idea to offer the cus-

tomer face to face training and also

be refreshing training through

online would be quite good for me.

and food hygiene, and first aid.

And why do you think it is good to work with the communities rather than businesses?

I feel I get more out of the training by working with the community groups. I have always been a part of community where I have lived,

so I think it is just something quite natural that appeals to me.

Is there any particular success story that you are proud of throughout your years of ex-perience?

Yes, I think I have been very lucky during the time I spent at the cafe and we worked with many people -

quite a few adults who had mental health issues. They were struggling with a normal life.

We could say that I am quite

proud of helping some people in that way. And some of the people we had been working with are right

now holding down normal jobs and having a better lives and it’s due to the training that they received. I am also always proud of the com-munity groups I had worked with who set up catering operations.

And what are the future trends?

Somewhere between the morning coffee, blueberry muffin and yummy Mediterranean breakfast that included our “legendary”

stuf fed mushrooms, Marie Tomášková interviewed James Aldcroft.

James is the owner of The Square Lemon Training, which pro-

vides health and safety, food hy-giene and first aid training.

We talked about his enthusiasm for working with communities and his future plans for capacity building courses, which our organization proposed to him during the meeting before the interview.

The full-length version of this interview will be uploaded to our website (www.euromernet.org) soon.

Marie: How long you have been working with communities?

James: For probably fifteen years. I ran a small cafe, that was a social

enterprise at the general hospital in Brighton which took in volunteers and people with disadvantages and we offered trainings, so that was work experience where the people were working in the kitchens and

then we started to deliver the train-ings across the health and safety


“I am proud of working with the communities”

The Turkish Telecommunications

Directorate banned the access to

the popular social media platform

Twitter in late March, shortly after a

speech by the Turkish Prime Minis-

ter Recep Tayyip Erdogan who said

that they would “rip the root out of

Twitter” and all others. A week later

access to another powerful plat-

form, YouTube, was blocked, too.

Firmly believing in the freedom

of press and speech, Euro-Mernet

provided support to the Twitter us-

ers in Turkey by helping with widely

disseminating the information about

the alternative website DNS num-

bers (8.8.8.8) to bypass the ban.

Within a couple of days, the num-

bers appeared as graffiti on so

many walls across Turkey. Turkish

Constitutional Court ruled the fol-

lowing week that the blocking was

unlawful.

Cooperation between Euro-Mernet

and the educational bodies, both

local and international, continues

to grow stronger. Euro-Mernet

team members have recently vis-

ited City College Brighton and

Hove where we met Russell Dun-

scombe, the Work Placements Co-

ordinator.

We reached an agreement to

host international interns in the

future through the EU-funded inter

-regional project, the Graduate

Apprentice Placement Scheme

(GAPS), to which the City College

Brighton and Hove is the local

partner.

We also expressed our interest

as a potential hosting organisation

for the City College’s recently pi-

l o t e d p r o j e c t , t h e p r e -

apprenticeship volunteering pro-

gramme.

Euro-Mernet also signed a part-

nership agreement with the French

organisation, Association ADICE,

one of the existing GAPS project

partners of the City College. Part-

nership agreement means that

Euro-Mernet agreed to send and

host international interns in col-

laboration with Association ADICE.

Euro-Mernet team members

attended the quarterly meeting of

Brighton and Hove Racial Harass-

ment Forum (RHF), which took

place on 25th March 2014. Our

team made contributions to the

discussions in several areas.

The safety measures for the

forthcoming March for England

(MFE) in April 2017 was one of the

key issues discussed. MFE is organ-

ised by a group of white suprema-

cists and tension grows between

the city’s multi-cultural communi-

ties and the marchers who are be-

lieved to be linked to the notorious

English Defence League (EDL),

known for their racist and Islamo-

phobic statements. Our team pre-

sented our findings and sugges-

tions on the content and design of

the police leaflets, and also submit-

ted tactical advice on social media.

Our team also presented our

findings from the RHF’s Strategic

Assessment paper of 2013 on racist

and religiously motivated incidents

(RRMI), and made recommenda-

tions on actions on various levels

including between the BME commu-

nity organisations, the individual

communities with more than one

ethnic origin, and between the local

authority and other statutory bod-

ies such as the police force.

Euro-Mernet team pledged to

continue encouraging the diverse

communities to get actively in-

volved in RHF’s work, including tak-

ing part in the RHF Executive Panel.

Euro-Mernet News & Events


No tolerance to racist & re-

ligiously motivated behaviour More volunteers for us,

en route from City College

Ban-busters: support for

Twitter users in Turkey

What’s on where and when... Calendar of events

spaces across the city will be open to exhibit the work of over 1,000 artists. The Artist Open Houses give you the chance to buy artworks directly from the makers. There is a huge selec-tion of art works, from original paintings, prints, graffiti arts, ceramics, photography, sculpture, crafts and jewellery and many others. Free entry. 3 -25 May http://www.aoh.org.uk

ACROSS THE UK

Oh my Sweet Land A film directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi which tells the story of one woman’s journey back to Syria as she searches for a lost love

amidst war and bloody violence. 9 April – 3 May, Young Vic Theatre, 66 The Cut, London, SE1 8LZ http://www.youngvic.org

Cairo Stories A video and photographic exhibition by US artist Judith Barry with Egyptian women created from a collection of more than 200 interviews between the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011. 10 April – 31 May, Waterside contemporary, 2 Clunbury Street, London, N1 6TT. http://waterside-contemporary.com

The Dupes (Al Makhdu’un) The Dupes is a masterwork of Arab political cinema based on Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani’s 1963 novella Men Under the Sun. Combining innovative flashback and point-of-view nar-rative techniques, the film recalls the stories of three Palestin-ian refugees from different generations, drawn together in the suffocating heat of a steel tanker as they try to make their way across the desert to Kuwait in search of a better future. Based on a Palestinian text, the film was Egyptian directed, Syrian produced, and shot in Iraq. Dir: Tawfik Saleh (1972), 107 min. 24 April, Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. http://bit.ly/PQRceN

ACROSS THE REGION

Clean up the Mediterranean

A three-day-cleaning up of our beaches in all the Medi-

terranean Basin: more than 40 countries involved, more than 850 organizations among which municipalities, ecologically sensitive hotel chains, schools and universi-

ties. It is organized and coordinated by Legambiente, Grosseto. 23—25 May http://bit.ly/1qdjP14

BRIGHTON AND HOVE

Jacob Dahlgren from 5 of April to 26 May On Balance, an art exhibition of Jacob Dahlgren, is put on display by Fabrica, an art visual organisa-tion situated in the centre of Brighton. The artist originally trained as an abstract painter. Much of his current practice is concerned with making three-dimensional works using quanti-ties of economically manufactured. 5 April – 26 May, Fabrica, 40 Duke Street, Brighton, BN1 1AG http://fabrica.org.uk

Health care conference The national conference of UNISON's health care service group,

to discuss issues and set policy affecting members working in the health sector. 14 - 16 April, The Brighton Centre, Kings Road Brighton, BN1 2GR http://bit.ly/1c6sFHg

Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival Spring Harvest Easter time brings local producers, growers, restaurants, bars and food retailers across the city together. The celebration of fantastic gastronomy includes the Big Sussex Market & Live Food Show, Children's Food Festival, Mini Mix Off and Brighton Fish Festival. 17 – 27 April www.brightonfoodfestival.com

Brighton Festival One of Europe’s leading events of music, theatre, dance, art, film, literature and debate. It takes place in some parks, cine-mas, pubs and other venues across Brighton and Hove every year. The Festival attracts a lot of artists from the UK and around the world. This year Hofesh Shechter will be the Guest Director. 3 – 25 May http://brightonfestival.org

Brighton Fringe Festival This event is the third largest fringe event in the world. It is an annual meeting with theatre, music, dance, performances and books, from local and international artists. There are around 720 events confirmed at 186 different venues and spaces.

3 May – 1 June http://www.brightonfringe.org

The Great Escape The Great Escape is a new music festival that show emerging artists from all over the world. Over 400 bands will perform in 35 Brighton venues. It’s the best place to discover some new bands before they become famous playing in the major festi-vals. 8 – 10 May http://mamacolive.com/thegreatescape

Artist Open Houses Festival 2014 The festival will take place in Brighton, Hove and beyond over the four weekends of May. Almost 200 houses and studio

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