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Developing EU Trade Incentives: A Support Tool for Refugee Self-Reliance and Host Community Resilience in Turkey
This paper explores how trade facilitation can become a way of supporting sustainable self-reliance for migrants and refugees by analysing their situation in Turkey.
28 March 2022
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Talent Partnerships and future skills needs. Fostering collaboration on human capital development in the Mediterranean
This Policy Report aims to identify possible areas in which Talent Partnerships can be developed between the EU and Southern Mediterranean countries within a mutually-beneficial framework
15 March 2022
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Building Resilience Blocks: How to Improve the Quality of Work for the Egyptian Construction Precariat?
This paper explores how the notion of precarity applies to informal construction workers in Egypt. It also assesses the government’s intervention during the pandemic regarding informal irregular workers.
3 February 2022
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Paradoxical Africanisation of Libya after 2011. Growing influence of sub- Saharan African government, rebel, diplomatic and criminal actors in the post-Gaddafi state
Libya moved from being an exporter of security to sub-Saharan Africa, as under Gaddafi, to becoming an importer. Some aspects of this multi-dimensional “Africanisation” of Libya are likely to take root.
31 January 2022
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Youth unemployment in the South of the Mediterranean: A chronic challenge to development and stability
The paper aims to provide policy recommendations to address this chronic problem in the region and focuses mainly on Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
28 January 2022
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The EU Green Deal. A new momentum for democratic governance in the MENA region?
Environmentally sound and socially just policies in countries beyond the EU will hardly materialise without improvements in the area of democratic governance.
26 January 2022
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Macro approaches to the study of radicalisation and violent extremism in MENA and the Balkans
This publication of the CONNEKT project includes two comparative studies of the Balkans (Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and North Macedonia) and the MENA region (Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia).
23 December 2021
- Policy Study
Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change in the Mediterranean
The purpose of gathering knowledge on the socioeconomic impact of climate change is to advise decision- makers on the difficult decisions to be taken to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a region facing severe threats that climate change only...
26 November 2021
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Innovation ecosystems and start-ups in the Mediterranean as a means of recovering from the COVID-19 crisis
In the absence of further joint migration instruments at a European level, the burden of managing the migrant emergency falls primarily on local and regional authorities of the European countries in particular in the south of the EU.
23 November 2021
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- Report
Proximidad, clave para un mejor periodismo inclusivo
El Observatorio de la Islamofobia en los Medios ha analizado en 2020 las informaciones relativas al islam y a las/los musulmanes (identificadas a partir de los términos de búsqueda fijados en su metodología) publicadas durante todo el año por una...
27 October 2021
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Territorial Impact of Migration on Frontline Regions and Cities on the EU Shores of the Mediterranean
In the absence of further joint migration instruments at a European level, the burden of managing the migrant emergency falls primarily on local and regional authorities of the European countries in particular in the south of the EU.
21 September 2021
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Central Banks at the Frontline of the COVID-19 crisis: Weathering the Storm, Spurring the Recovery. A View from the Mediterranean Countries
With the aim to foster a comprehensive dialogue on the economic and financial situation of the Mediterranean region, this conference allowed to take an important step in the ambition to strengthen cooperation ties among Mediterranean central banks.
1 September 2021