Politics & Cooperation

The Lisbon Treaty and Euro-Mediterranean Relations

The Lisbon Treaty not only impacts differently on different EU policies and policy instruments, but it is likely to have a different effect in the short term and long term.

Syria: An Overview of the Situation

Having weathered the surrounding storms of the decade, Syria feels justifiably at the centre of events in the region, with a finger in everyone’s pie.

Europe’s Mediterranean Policy under the Hardship of Identity-Oriented and Nationalist Trends

When considering the “freeze-up” of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership since late 2008, one is tempted to judge the intense yet ridiculous activity carried out for two years to revitalize the Barcelona Process severely.

The New Architecture of the Treaty of Lisbon: Implications for Euro-Mediterranean Relations

The changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon are particularly significant on the institutional level. The entire system has, in effect, been restructured and new balances and inter-institutional relations are emerging.

Obama: From the University of Cairo to the Mavi Marmara

A year has gone by since Obama’s famous Cairo speech and clear, visible changes in the situation of the debate on relations between these two worlds continue to make way.

Incierta carrera contrarreloj en Irak

Mientras los grupos políticos luchan por formar gobierno, el futuro inmediato del país se decide entre Washington y Teherán, que intentan encajar sus respectivos intereses.

A Argel no le salen las cuentas con la UE

The Peace Negotiations and Israeli Domestic Politics

Henry Kissinger once observed that Israel never had a foreign policy, only domestic politics – an assertion that became canonical in academic literature and media commentary.

A Fascinating, Challenging, Unpredictable Year

It has been a fascinating year for observers of the Mediterranean reality. After more than fifty years of stability in the Arab countries, the region has been rocked by profound and unexpected changes.

Union for the Mediterranean: Challenges and Ambitions

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.