Politics & Cooperation

New Pact for the Mediterranean. The Future of Euro-Mediterranean Relations on the 30th Anniversary of the Barcelona Process

New Pact for the Mediterranean. The Future of Euro-Mediterranean Relations on the 30th Anniversary of the Barcelona Process

The success of the New Pact will depend on its capacity to turn consultation into genuine partnership, to balance ambition with realism and to show it has learned from past experience.

 25 July 2025
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Spain–Algeria Relations Seminar: Stocktaking, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Against the backdrop of renewed engagement and a shared commitment to cooperation between Algeria and Spain, Casa Mediterráneo, in collaboration with IEMed and CEARC, is organising this high-level seminar.

 24 September 2026

Challenges Facing the Arab-Mediterranean World 30 Years After the Barcelona Process

The debate will address the challenges facing the Arab-Mediterranean world thirty years after the launch of the Barcelona Process

 21 September 2026

Civil society voices to shape the next phase of the Pact for the Mediterranean

Civil society representatives in Brussels on 23 July for a new round of consultations on the implementation of the Pact for the Mediterranean.

 23 July 2026
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MedCat Days 2026

The MedCat Days 2026 provides a space for reflexion on the future of the regional cooperation with the new Pact for the Mediterranean.

 9 July 2026

Aula Mediterrània Morocco Summer School 2026

From July 7 to 10, 2026, Tetouan will host the second edition of the Aula Mediterrània Morocco Summer School,

 7 July 2026
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Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East 2026

New edition of the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, a joint initiative of IBEI and Blanquerna University with the collaboration of the IEMed.

 29 June 2026

EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2026

The EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2026 aims to assess future scenarios for Euro Mediterranean cooperation and identify practical policy recommendations

 4 June 2026

Opposition Learning as Capitulation: Leftist Parties’ Trajectories in the Middle East and North Africa

A lecture by Francesco Cavatorta, a full professor in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval in Quebec

 21 May 2026

From Oil to AI: The Quest for Digital Autonomy in the Middle East

Conference of the Aula Mediterrània 2025-2026 conference series with Sara Bazoobandi, Researcher at the Institute for Security Policy, University of Kiel.

 14 May 2026

The Coloniality of Care in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

An AulaMed lecture by Sara R. Farris, a Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London.

 28 April 2026

Border control and search and rescue (SAR) obligations in the Mediterranean: between human rights and security

Aula Mediterrània lecture with Silvia Morgades, associate professor of Public International Law and International Relations.

 21 April 2026

The Fifteen Wars of Israel against Gaza

A lecture by Jean-Pierre Filiu, historian and professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Center for International Studies.

 16 April 2026