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Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb in 2008

The prolongation of US occupation of Iraq has encouraged the development of a Jihadist network in Mediterranean countries by offering them a new cause for mobilisation and increased recruitment opportunities.

 5 June 2009

The Future of Europe: The External Trade Dimension

The recent debate on the “Future of Europe” started around the time of the signature of the Treaty of Lisbon on 13 December 2007.

 1 June 2009

A New Way Forward on Cyprus

After four years of stalemate, new talks since September 2008 have rekindled hopes for settlement of the half-century-old Cyprus problem.

 31 May 2009

Germany: A Player in the Mediterranean

Germany took over the EU Presidency for the first six months of 2007. The German Presidency coincided with the launch of the presidential election campaign in France and the infamous speech given by then presidential candidate Mr Sarkozy.

 26 May 2009

The Evolution of the Euro-Mediterranean Trade Framework

The year 2008 was an important one for Euro-Mediterranean trade relations. Tariffs were completely dismantled in the first southern Mediterranean country, Tunisia, within the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area.

 8 May 2009

The Morocco/EU advanced status: what value does it add to the European Neighbourhood Policy?

The partnership ties between Morocco and the EU have been actively forged in an attempt to provide a better perspective of the growth of the European Union through its successive expansions.

 7 May 2009

Economic Convergence and Divergence of Southern Mediterranean Countries with the European Union

One of the main objectives of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership is to enhance economic and financial cooperation between member countries and to create an area of shared prosperity through sustainable socioeconomic development.

 21 April 2009

The French Presidency of the EU and the Union for the Mediterranean: Forced Europeanisation?

France assumed the Presidency of the EU in the second semester of 2008, promising to galvanise Euro-Mediterranean relations.

 16 April 2009

Civil Society in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

Apart from the growing marginalisation of civil society in the governing bodies of the Partnership, the participants in the Marseille Forum also emphasised a large number of other difficulties that hamper the development of the Barcelona Process.

 6 April 2009

The State of Freedom in the Arab World Five Years after the First Arab Human Development Report

Attainment of freedom, in the comprehensive sense adopted in the AHDR, was recognized as the most crucial human development challenge in the Arab region.

 24 March 2009

Political Reform and Euro-Mediterranean Relations

The year 2008 was a troubled one for all aspects of political reform in the Arab countries of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Democratic reform was nowhere to be seen and, in certain cases, the political arena was stifled even further.

 20 March 2009

Cultural Cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership from 1995 to 2008

Intercultural co-existence is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is a challenge to which the governments of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, from its origin through to today, have afforded great importance.

 19 March 2009