Les élections municipales en Tunisie auront lieu le 6 mai 2018. Ces premières élections législatives depuis la révolution de 2011 constituent un enjeu important pour des formations politiques mues par des agendas différents.
Tres factores han hecho posible la reconciliación palestina: el acercamiento entre Hamás y Egipto, la crisis económica en Gaza y la elección de Yahya al Sinwar.
The year 2016 was a turning point for the consecutive and dramatic events that had engulfed Lebanon following the eruption of the civil war in Syria in 2011.
Turkey began 2017 with great political momentum. In January a constitutional reform package was signed off aimed at substantially modifying the semi-presidential system and replacing it with a full-blown presidential one.
Jordan, an oasis of political stability surrounded by volatility, remains for the most part, unscathed six years after the Arab Spring shook – and even overthrew in some cases – its neighbours.
Egypt is still undergoing a prolonged complex transition that affects the trajectory of political reform in the country.
In 2016, five years after the start of the Tunisian revolution, the time for an initial assessment seems to have arrived.
Since Tunisia triggered the so-called Arab Spring, which has dashed so many hopes and caused so much misfortune throughout the Arab and Muslim world, Algeria seems to be on standby.
One cannot understand the Italian crisis of recent years, primarily during the period from the 2014 Renzi government to the present, without focusing on the specifics of Italy.
Moroccan politics in 2016 were marked at the institutional level by developments leading up to and following the 7 October legislative elections, the last quarter, therefore, seeing the year’s most decisive events.
The relative stability of the occupied Palestinian territories largely escaped international attention. No significant opposition emerged to challenge the status quo in the OPT, despite high dissatisfaction.
The European Neighbourhood Policy has been exposed to changes from within as well as from outside since it was initiated. The reviewed ENP is marked by decreased ambition and the abolition of the EU’s democracy promotion agenda.