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The Crisis and its Impact on Migration and Migrant Employment

Over the course of the past decade, immigrant workers have generally made a major contribution to employment growth. Within the EU-15, the total number of jobs grew from 14.5 million during the seven years preceding 2008.

A Fascinating, Challenging, Unpredictable Year

It has been a fascinating year for observers of the Mediterranean reality. After more than fifty years of stability in the Arab countries, the region has been rocked by profound and unexpected changes.

The Free Trade Area as an Engine of Mediterranean Integration: The Case of the Agadir Countries’ Association Agreements with the European Union

Union for the Mediterranean: Challenges and Ambitions

Mauritania: 2009, Year in Review

Mauritania suffers simultaneous geopolitical, economic and security challenges that threaten to spill over unless Mediterranean countries and the US help contain them.

Water in the Middle East: The Need for Cooperation

Analysts coincide in confirming that the planet is currently in a situation of environmental scarcity. This scarcity is determined by three main factors.

Israel-Palestine in 2009: War, Unilateralism and an Attempt to Renew Negotiations

South-South Regional Integration Processes: Regionalism under Multiple Forms

Almost all developing countries are engaged in processes of regional integration whose forms range from sectoral cooperation to political unions with transfer of sovereignty.

Linking the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership with the Eastern Partnership and the Black Sea

The ENP seemed to suffer from being neither enlargement nor foreign policy, as it neither exercised conditionality as effectively as the former, nor included all the political tools of the latter.

The Mediterranean: Between Globalisation, De-globalisation and Re-globalisation

Western Balkan Countries and the Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean

When several Western Balkan states were invited into the fledgling Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) in 2008, commentators saw it as diluting the flagship initiative of the EU Council’s French Presidency.

Morocco: 10 Years of Mohammed VI’s Reign

Ten years is ample time to outline a plan for government. Has Mohammed VI used his first decade on the throne to draw one up and begin to implement it?