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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Egypt and Turkey in the Hornet’s Nest of the Horn of Africa

Egypt and Turkey have two distinct, though increasingly overlapping, approaches to engagement in the Horn of Africa and Sudan.

 27 May 2026

The Climate-Water-Food Nexus in the Mediterranean: Lessons from 2025

Climate, water and food can no longer be governed as separate policy domains. The events of the year demonstrate that interventions designed in isolation are increasingly prone to failure.

 27 May 2026

Critical Minerals, the Geoeconomic Turn and the Euro-Mediterranean’s Strategic Importance

These minerals are not just industrial inputs but strategic resources whose availability shapes countries’ ability to pursue digitalization, decarbonization, industrial competitiveness and energy security.

 27 May 2026

The Rules Remain — Their Application Does Not

The language of universal norms endures. What has ended is the plausibility of the claim that the system functions as a genuine constraint on power, as opposed to a resource through which power legitimates itself.

 27 May 2026

Turkey’s Drift beyond Competitive Authoritarianism

The central political question is whether the opposition can preserve the organizational autonomy necessary to remain a credible electoral alternative until the next national election.

 27 May 2026

War, Displaced People and Famine in Sudan: Another Chronic Crisis on the African Continent

As the economic needs of the warring parties increase, we will see greater tensions with neighbouring countries and the armed groups operating within them.

 27 May 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

Lucha contra el terrorismo, derechos de las personas y garantías procesales: una aproximación comparativa entre España y Marruecos

AulaMed article in Spanish by Mohamed Rouin, speaker of the Aula Mediterrània 2025-26 lecture series.

 15 May 2026

Borders control and search and rescue obligations in the Mediterranean: Between human rights and security

AulaMed article by Sílvia Morgades Gil, Serra Hunter Associate professor in International Public Law, and speaker of the Aula Mediterrània 2025-26 lecture series.

 15 May 2026

La dimensión transnacional de la música y la ritualidad gnawa

AulaMed article in Spanish by Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, speaker of the Aula Mediterrània 2025-26 lecture series.

 15 May 2026

Disinformation and Freedom of Expression in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

AulaMed article in English by Joan Barata Mir, speaker of the Aula Mediterrània 2025-26 lecture series.

 15 May 2026

The Canary Necrocorridor: Visibility, Policy, and Spatial Erasure Across a World of Death¹

AulaMed article in English by Mohammed Ouhemmou and Ricard Zapata Barrero, speakers of the Aula Mediterrània 2025-26 lecture series.

 15 May 2026