This year, as it celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Declaration and the launching of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the European Union is dealing with a flurry of new actors that have recently emerged in the Mediterranean region.
The year 2019 was a relatively quiet one for Jordan, after the protests of 2018. However, instability persists in the government, which has been reshuffled four times in just over a year.
In the spring of 2019, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces recaptured the territory held by the Islamic State group in Syria. As they did so, they found themselves holding thousands of people who had travelled from around the world to join ISIS
Politically weakened, economically failing and socially in turmoil, Algeria has not been spared the COVID 19 pandemic.
The lack of channels for social demands creates the conditions for sudden explosions of anger. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some latent contradictions within Egyptian society.
Yemen entered its sixth year of conflict in March 2020. Yemeni confrontations and foreign armed interventions on its soil have caused “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world,” according to the UN.
With Europe caught up in responding to the health and economic crises at home, and Africa facing already devastating economic consequences, the basis of the relationship has shifted.
After the rupture of diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran due to the occupation of the US embassy in Tehran, the extremely poor bilateral relations seemed detrimental to the evolution of relations between Iran and the Gulf states.
Despite the setbacks caused by the great pandemic of 2020, China's Belt and Road initiative is likely to actively shape the post-COVID-19 realities in the Balkans.
Geographically, the Maghreb is an integral part of the African continent. And yet, very often, the countries and societies from the Maghreb have given priority to other geographic or cultural identities.
While restoring global health remains the top priority, it cannot be denied that the strict measures enforced have caused massive economic and social shocks.
In the last years of the 2010s, the competitive intervention of rival powers in the Syrian crisis escalated into a contest to carve out spheres of geo-political influence in the country.
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