Briefs / Focus / Spot Ons
- Spot On
The UFM vision statement 2025: a defensive turn in Euro-Mediterranean regionalism
Helena Hahn examines the EU’s Pact for the Mediterranean as a possible framework to boost skills development and labour mobility between the EU and partner countries.
21 January 2026
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Securing the future of global trade in the Mediterranean basin: a cooperative policy framework for Tanger Med and Algeciras Ports
This Policy Brief examines how global trade in the Mediterranean Basin is increasingly shaped by regulatory divergence, digital transformation, and uneven climate governance.
30 December 2025
- Policy Brief
The smart green switch: a digital framework for equitable urban greening in the euro-mediterranean region
Structural inequities and weak planning frameworks continue to shape urban greening in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
30 December 2025
- Policy Brief
The Pact for the Mediterranean: a stimulus for enhanced skills and labour mobility?
Helena Hahn examines the EU’s Pact for the Mediterranean as a possible framework to boost skills development and labour mobility between the EU and partner countries.
30 December 2025
- Policy Brief
Open waste data for a circular MENA
This Policy Brief examines how chronic data gaps continue to shape waste management in MENA cities.
30 December 2025
- Policy Brief
The use of AI tools in asylum procedures. Quo vadis?
This Brief calls for a rights-based, precautionary approach to AI in asylum procedures, ensuring that digital innovation does not come at the expense of fairness, dignity, or protection.
30 December 2025
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Securing digital borders: confronting technology-facilitated violence against migrant women in the Euro-Mediterranean
This Policy Brief exposes how digital tools – from messaging apps to social platforms – are increasingly used to target, manipulate, and exploit migrant women across the Euro-Mediterranean.
5 December 2025
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Working Towards a Plastic-Free Mediterranean Sea
Ahmed Yassin, Egypt Country Manager of Enaleia, shares how a movement that began in Greece with a single fisherman has evolved into a regional model for change.
31 October 2025
- Spot On
Gaza’s Day After: It is not the plan that is missing but the will to implement it
The very idea that there is no plan for the day after Gaza is simply an effort to distract attention from the real work that needs to be done to pressure Israel to agree to these conditions.
4 April 2025
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Migraciones femeninas internacionales y Derechos Humanos en países de la Unión Europea. Desafíos y aportes para la gobernabilidad democrática
Article by Teresa Terrón-Caro on international female migrations and Human Rights
12 March 2025
- Focus
The Middle East and North Africa Region’s Greenisation: A Comparative Outlook
Article by Giulia Cimini on energy policy change in the MENA region
6 March 2025
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Una perspectiva transnacional i cultural de les xarxes mercantils a (i des de) la Mediterrània occidental
Article by Josep San Ruperto that analyzes merchant networks in the western Mediterranean to understand their exchanges and their economic and social dynamics, as well as the experiences of these agents in a context of transformation.
6 March 2025