The year 2005, the Year of the Mediterranean, which was to allow commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, closed with the failure of the Barcelona Summit.
For the first time, heads of state took tourism cooperation into consideration as a factor contributing to the advent of an area of joint economic development.
With ever increasing numbers of high-skilled mobility and significant changes in migration patterns, a paradigm shift has occurred from ‘brain drain’ to ‘brain circulation’.
The 2006 elections in Israel undoubtedly made a significant difference if compared with previous elections.
Together with Iraq and the situation in Palestine, Lebanon represented another factor of instability in the Eastern Mediterranean.
US policies in the Middle East region faced acute challenges in 2006. The ongoing war and struggle to legitimize the new government in Iraq were the preoccupying concerns, and progress in that arena was modest.
The agricultural and food issue is, in fact, decisive for the future of the Mediterranean Basin, as it is at the junction of politics, commerce and society.
Over the past decade and a half, Arab audiences have witnessed the mushrooming of trans-border Arabic TV stations. This ‘new media’ has increasingly become a powerful socio-cultural and political institution.
In order to become a knowledge society, the Arab region needs to open up first to the information age.
In early 2003, few people would have predicted the changes which were about to happen in Libya with regard to its external relations.
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