The geographic ensemble of the Mediterranean Basin is criss-crossed by tensions and often also misunderstandings between societies on the North and South shores.
The issue of minority rights has cropped up in Euro-Mediterranean relations relatively recently.
EU policy has limited itself until now to waiting to see developments and then starting to act. That seems to be inadequate and could contribute to complicating matters further on.
There are few options the EU could choose to avoid yet another loss of credibility. One is to open up to the various segments of Arab civil society, to follow their discourses and to enter into a critical dialogue with all of them.
Throughout 2011, social media usage continued to grow significantly across the Arab world, coupled with major shifts in usage trends.
The 2012 edition of Mediterra takes the mobilizing potential of the Mediterranean diet as a basis and proposes a multidimensional itinerary that involves sociodemographic, health, ecological, business and neo-economic characteristics.
Higher education is but one part of overall education systems and wherever possible its further development should be linked to overall education and training policies.
In the face of the growing opening up of our societies on the economic as well as the cultural and political levels, the extreme right structures itself on the anxiety generated by “open society”.
Demographic transformation concerns all Arab countries and everywhere it is bringing grandiose political change.
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