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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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The Impact of the Iran Deal on International Politics in the Middle East

After the P5+1 secured a nuclear agreement with Iran, attention shifted to the implications of the deal for the Middle East region and its security, and prospects for maintaining, perhaps even expanding, the dialogue with Iran.

 30 August 2016

Reappraisal of the European Neighbourhood Policy

The idea of ensuring greater coherence between the CFSP and the ENP is certainly a good initiative, but it is important to understand that these are two separate policies that are contingent, for instance, on different decision-making procedures.

 21 August 2016

Turkey and EU Relations in Light of Recent Political and Economic Developments in the Region

The growing instability in Turkey’s neighborhood is undermining the country’s foreign trade and tourism industry, creating growing challenges for Turkey’s economy and politics.

 27 July 2016

The New Kurdish Presence

Although they have largely been turkified over time, Anatolian Kurds still wish to be recognized within their own particular identity.

 26 July 2016

The Inflexibility of Turkey’s Policy in Syria

Turkey’s foreign policy has been in a significant predicament in recent years and the Syrian crisis has been the main source of it.

 25 July 2016

Is International Diplomacy Overcoming the Deadlock in Libya? Future Scenarios

In the first months of 2016, US, Italian, French and British spokespersons expressed a desire to intervene in Libya. The two main reasons for this urgency include the lack of a political agreement among Libyans and a fear of growing terrorist activit...

 22 July 2016

Sunnis, Shiites: The Second Major Fitna

Nowadays the Middle East is witnessing major tensions between Sunnis and Shiites. The confrontation underway has led to a globalisation of the conflict between the two main branches of Islam on the regional scale.

 19 July 2016

President Obama and the Middle East: a Mixed Legacy

As the Obama Administration draws to a close, a fierce debate over the President’s legacy in the Middle East has begun.

 13 July 2016

The Russian Approach to Middle East Conflicts and the Arab World

While Moscow may still help the Assad regime retain the territory it now controls, Putin is clearly not going to expend Russian resources in helping Damascus achieve its more ambitious goal of regaining control over all of Syria.

 11 July 2016

Crisis, Identity and Raison d’Être of the European Union

The multiple crises, or multi-crisis, affecting the EU today are causing cracks in the set of values that supposedly make up its identity. Of these different crises, the refugee crisis will be the most decisive for the EU’s future.

 5 July 2016

Is the European Union Standing the Mediterranean Test? The Lack of a European Foreign and Security Policy in the Face of the Current Turmoil

While the Mediterranean area was the subject of a major EU foreign policy initiative in 1995, it has gradually become the epicentre of the most dramatic challenges confronting the EU.

 4 July 2016

Recognising Palestine, Unrecognising Settlements

Achieving a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a long-standing EU policy objective. Of all the territorial disputes outside Europe, this conflict that has most preoccupied European decisions-makers.

 13 June 2016