(By Chiara De Felice) (ANSAmed) - BRUSSELS, MAY 20 - There is the attempt to put an end to dialogue and move on to action, there is the need to contain the aspirations for control of the Mediterranean of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and there is the willingness after all to give a European stamp on the new institution: the new 'Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean', according to the structure unveiled by the European Commission today, features together many aspirations which now have to settle the score with the real protagonists, that is the countries of the southern coast. According to the proposal presented today by European External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the Union will be co-chaired between July and December by France (in its capacity of EU rotating president), together with a country of the southern coast to be picked during the Paris summit on July 13 which will officially launch the new institution. The race to seize the co-presidency has already started, with Algeria threatening not to attend the Paris summit if it does not play a leading role and Tunisia which wants the seat of the permanent secretariat, the second institution created by the Brussels structure. The co-presidency and the secretariat have the purpose to create an ''entirely balanced'' decision-taking process, explained Ferrero-Waldner, whereas in the past the decisions were taken by the EU and later proposed to the partners of the southern coast which felt they were excluded from the circle of those that matter. The ''heart'' of the Barcelona bis, according to Brussels, already has the first four indications for the common projects: clean up the Mediterranean by 2020, connect all countries of the basin via ''motorways of the sea'', take advantage of the solar energy and create a common civil protection to respond to the numerous emergency situations in the area (barges of illegal immigrants, sinking of oil tankers). The secretariat should find the funding which should come mainly from the private sector but the Commission does not exclude the possibility to draw out some funding from the EU budget. All decisions will be made by the heads of state and government of the countries on both sides of the Mediterranean who will meet every two years, just like the foreign ministers, in order to have an opportunity to make decisions and make recommendations every year. Therefore, the repetition of the Barcelona process, or what has remained of Sarkozy's proposal launched a year ago whose shape, substance and intents have been changed by the EU, becomes a creation of Brussels: Sarkozy wanted to lead a Union of the Mediterranean Countries (following the model of the EU) but the other member states granted him only the patent on the idea and the first, symbolic, presidency. Now the ball is in the court of South Mediterranean countries, which have been agitated by the idea to have to agree on the name of the first president and the members of the secretariat. Sarkozy and his Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, have launched a campaign to calm down the Maghreb countries and convince them to take part in the summit on July 13, called by France, when the true count of who is in and who is out will be made. So far, the ten European partners of the South Mediterranean are included, as well as the former observers of the first Barcelona process, that is, Israel, Mauritania, Libya and Albania, joined by Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia and Monaco, but it is still unknown which of them will attend the meeting in Paris in July. For the moment, Morocco and Tunisia are with France, while Algeria is sceptical because it sees too much European interest in the need to create the Union. However, it is easy to foresee that all discontent will end with a division of the posts that would satisfy everyone. (ANSAmed).