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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Borrell: “En Oriente Medio no estuvimos a la altura, y seguimos sin estarlo”

Josep Borrell talks about the state of the European Union's foreign policy and the challenges that will shape the continent's and its neighborhood's future." (afkar/ideas interview, in Spanish)

 14 July 2026

Irán y su ‘eje de la resistencia’ contra las cuerdas

Despite the setbacks it has suffered, Tehran will seek to restore the strength of its ‘axis of resistance’, one of its key means of retaliation against the threat posed by Israel and the United States (afkar/ideas article in Spanish)

 13 July 2026

Europa y la guerra con Irán: de la descoordinación hacia la autonomía estratégica

In its strategy for the Middle East, Europe must make the most of its economic, diplomatic and security assets to develop policies based on its own interests rather than those of the US. (afkar/ideas article in Spanish)

 13 July 2026

Israel: en guerra y a la espera de elecciones

The terrorist attack on 7 October 2023, of unprecedented scale, marked a crucial turning point for the region. The fact that such violence could be unleashed on Israeli territory, on the outskirts of Gaza, revealed an unprecedented vulnerability on I...

 13 July 2026

Las monarquías del golfo ante la guerra de Irán

The war against Iran, launched on the initiative of Israel and the United States on 28 February 2026, constitutes the greatest crisis in the global supply of hydrocarbons that the world economy has faced in modern times, as Karen Young highlighted in...

 13 July 2026

Implicaciones energéticas en la guerra de Irán

Instability in the Persian Gulf will lead to a reconfiguration of energy geopolitics. (afkar/ideas is available in Spanish and French)

 13 July 2026

Soberanía tecnológica y geopolítica del Golfo

Iran and the Gulf countries are pursuing divergent strategies to reduce their dependence on foreign military and digital suppliers. (afkar/ideas is available in Spanish and French)

 13 July 2026

El precio de la estabilidad: la guerra y el futuro del poder blando del Golfo

The war is forcing Gulf countries to rethink their influence strategies. (afkar/ideas is available in Spanish and French)

 13 July 2026

Europe after Gaza: the Collapse of the European Union as a “Peace Project”

The EU after Gaza has no film on offer in this world; the idea of a peace project has collapsed. It can, however, be re-imagined.

 13 July 2026

La guerra sin salida de Líbano

Getting into Lebanon is much easier than getting out. In response to the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah fired six rockets at northern Israel on 2 March. (afkar/ideas article in Spanish)

 13 July 2026

Deporte en el golfo, ¿una potencia basada en la circulación hoy amenazada?

Sport in the Gulf has never been a form of ‘sportswashing’, but rather the result of a policy of movement that is as vulnerable as the straits, the air routes and the financial flows on which it depends. (afkar/ideas article in Spanish)

 13 July 2026

Fraying Primacy: How the Iran War May Accelerate a Middle East Hedging Order

The conflict with Iran could accelerate the transition from an era of American primacy to one of competitive disorder.

 13 July 2026