Economy & Finance

The Euro Zone: No Turning Back

The core of the euro crisis is not fiscal, though fiscal issues did bring the crisis to a head. At its heart, today’s problem stems from misalignments in Europe’s economic structure.

A Deeper Free Trade Area and Its Potential Economic Impact

Since 1976, the policies of the EU towards the countries of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership evolved from giving unilateral trade preferences to greater financial aid, commercial reciprocity and non-economic aspects.

The Free Trade Area as an Engine of Mediterranean Integration: The Case of the Agadir Countries’ Association Agreements with the European Union

South-South Regional Integration Processes: Regionalism under Multiple Forms

Almost all developing countries are engaged in processes of regional integration whose forms range from sectoral cooperation to political unions with transfer of sovereignty.

The Mediterranean: Between Globalisation, De-globalisation and Re-globalisation

Euro-Mediterranean Economic Integration

The Euro-Mediterranean integration project was implemented first through the Neighbourhood Policy and then through the Union for the Mediterranean. However, what results has it yielded since 1995?

The Financial Crisis’s Impact on Employment in the Mediterranean Region: The Story of Two Coasts

Public-Private Partnerships in the MENA Region in Times of Crisis: Current Trends in Private Sector Participation and PPP Policy Evaluation in MENA

Effective regulatory frameworks for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure development have become an important comparative advantage for countries’ ability to attract international investors in infrastructure and public services.

Using Evidence to Bridge the Untenable Gaps

Untenable gaps haunt the Mediterranean. Nowhere else in the world is the interdependence between what used to be called ‘developing’ and ‘developed’ nations so present and proximate.

Only Common Policies Can Lend the Mediterranean Region Strategic Ambition

The strategic objective of regional Euro-Mediterranean integration is not clear. We do have a general goal, that of creating an area of prosperity and peace. But more precisely?

Economic Crisis and Investments in the Arab Region

Economic Integration in the Mediterranean: Beyond the 2010 Free Trade Area