Marseilles, 28/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - Participants in a conference on investing for sustainable development that was held in Marseilles on 25 April stressed the need to step up initiatives involving European investment programmes in the Mediterranean area, taking advantage of the new finance mechanisms implemented by the EU through the EIB. EIB aid to beneficiary countries should rise by EUR 2 billion a year, more than a third of which will be destined for private sector projects, the...