Briefs / Focus / Spot Ons
- Focus
The Iran War’s Indirect Shockwaves in the Mediterranean Maghreb
The Iran war is not turning the Mediterranean Maghreb into a direct theatre of escalation, but it is already reshaping the region’s political economy.
30 March 2026
- Focus
The Iran War and How the World Sleepwalked into an Energy Crisis
Instead of a short and contained confrontation, the conflict in Iran rapidly evolved into an energy crisis.
25 March 2026
- Focus
The Gulf in the Crossfire: Strategic Consequences of the Iran War
The Gulf states now face a stark and unwelcome choice: deeper integration into a US-led war posture they tried to avoid, or a continued exposure to Iranian coercion.
16 March 2026
- Spot On
The UFM vision statement 2025: a defensive turn in Euro-Mediterranean regionalism
Roger Albinyana assesses the extent to which the UfM Vision Statement 2025 responds to the structural crisis of Euro-Mediterranean regionalism.
21 January 2026
- 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
- 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 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
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 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
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
- Focus
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