Henry Kissinger once observed that Israel never had a foreign policy, only domestic politics – an assertion that became canonical in academic literature and media commentary.
For a people with a relatively small population, the Palestinians have enormous issues. Yet, as gargantuan as these issues are, the principle behind them is elementary.
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.
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.
Mauritania suffers simultaneous geopolitical, economic and security challenges that threaten to spill over unless Mediterranean countries and the US help contain them.
Analysts coincide in confirming that the planet is currently in a situation of environmental scarcity. This scarcity is determined by three main factors.
Almost all developing countries are engaged in processes of regional integration whose forms range from sectoral cooperation to political unions with transfer of sovereignty.
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.
