Politics & Cooperation

Israel-Palestine in 2009: War, Unilateralism and an Attempt to Renew Negotiations

Linking the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership with the Eastern Partnership and the Black Sea

The ENP seemed to suffer from being neither enlargement nor foreign policy, as it neither exercised conditionality as effectively as the former, nor included all the political tools of the latter.

Western Balkan Countries and the Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean

When several Western Balkan states were invited into the fledgling Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) in 2008, commentators saw it as diluting the flagship initiative of the EU Council’s French Presidency.

US Foreign Policy towards the Maghreb: The Need for a New Beginning

Turkey in 2009: Active Globalisation Outside, Domestic Polarisation Inside

In the last decade, Turkey has undergone significant changes and transformations experienced and felt in all spheres of life. Turkey’s “geopolitical pivot” and regional power role in world politics has become more important.

China’s Influence in the Mediterranean

Iranian Political Influence on the Euro-Mediterranean Region

Post-Lisbon Treaty Europe: Reflections on the Institutional Impact of Certain Innovations

In short, the three levels of added uncertainty regarding the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty’s provisions make fulfilment of the simplification and transparency mandate much more complicated than was originally foreseen.

Hacia un estatuto… ¿avanzado?

Marruecos aspira a una legitimidad europea y a sacar provecho de los privilegios del Estatuto. Para ello debe progresar en sus reformas democráticas.

Cumbre bilateral UE-Marruecos: ¿qué avances?

El principal éxito de la cumbre radica en su valor simbólico. Pero no se dotó de contenido al Estatuto Avanzado, no se involucró a la sociedad civil y concitó protestas sociales.

Novedades euromed bajo presidencia española

El Mediterráneo busca una mejor oportunidad

España, Egipto y Francia posponen a noviembre la Cumbre de la UpM para que los eventuales avances en el diálogo palestino-israelí permitan celebrarla con éxito.