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The Digital Economy in Mediterranean Countries: Socioeconomic Challenges and Convergence Potential

After a stage of quick development that had the Mediterranean countries go from the low-income to the middle-income bracket, they entered a long period of growth insufficient for moving towards a significant rise in average per capita income.

 29 August 2019

The Middle East in the Geopolitics of Digital

The Middle East is not immune to the turmoil caused by the digital revolution. The events of the “Arab Springs” in 2011 demonstrated to the world the power that social media afford oppressed populations to coordinate and mobilize.

 28 August 2019

Euro-Mediterranean Migration Dynamics: The Role of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries

The Mediterranean is one of the regions most affected by migration issues due to its specificities as a border region separating two sides of an area characterized by strong asymmetries in levels of development.

 27 August 2019

Public Opinion Toward Immigration, Refugees, and Identity in Europe: A Closer Look at What Europeans Think and How Immigration Debates Have Become So Relevant

Recent dramatic changes in Europe’s political landscape are closely related to an increase in support for parties that take a strong stance against immigration.

 26 August 2019

Is It Possible to Develop a Common European Policy on Immigration and Asylum?

Next year, it will be twenty years since work began in Tampere on a common immigration and asylum policy for the European Union.

 24 August 2019

2018: Migration in the Mediterranean; Situation, Context and Evolution

An overall view of 2018 indicates a similar trend to 2009 in terms of the number of people crossing the Mediterranean towards the European Union. However, although the figures may be comparable, the context is very different.

 23 August 2019

Strongman Geopolitics

Nationalism is coming back and with a strength that has rarely been seen since the 1930s. And with the return of nationalism, as if often the case, come the strongmen.

 22 August 2019

Europe and Populist Movements

On 5 April 2019, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced the creation of the “European Alliance of Peoples and Nations”, intended to bring together all the Eurosceptic forces in the context of the European elections of May 2019.

 21 August 2019

Fifty Shades of Brown. The Reorganization of Europe’s Populist Radical Right

What academic literature is increasingly calling the populist radical right, has become a frequent presence in parliaments, institutions and public debates across the Continent.

 20 August 2019

Refugees and Migration As a Factor of EU Transformation

The humanitarian crisis that originated from the Syrian conflict has posed a great challenge for the countries of the EU. It is undoubtedly a milestone in the mandates of the Juncker Commission and Donald Tusk’s EU Council Presidency.

 19 August 2019

European Structural Power on the Wane? EU Foreign Policy between External and Internal Challenges

The European Union’s (EU) foreign policy software needs updating: it appears to be increasingly out of sync with the operating system of international politics.

 17 August 2019

Turkey in the Mediterranean: Influence on European Policies

Whatever one might think about Europe’s recent policies in the Mediterranean, paradoxically, they have seldom truly taken Turkey into account, despite its being part of that vast geographical and geopolitical grouping.

 16 August 2019