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.
Con la creación del Estado, la política exterior libia tendrá que cambiar: los Estados árabes, África subsahariana y del Norte, los tuareg y el petróleo son algunos de los frentes.
Hablar del futuro es temerario. Lo único claro es que la ‘realpolitik’ occidental que apostaba por las autocracias árabes como factores de estabilidad y seguridad ha quedado vieja.
The institutional asymmetry that exists between the European Union and its southern neighbours has been frequently underlined and discussed. Today other asymmetries of a strictly political nature are becoming impossible to deny.
There is a sense that all projects are based on a convergence of interests. But what about the convergence of values?
The UfM has attracted wide attention less because of its achievements than because of its stalemate. However, through the UfM’s focus on concrete initiatives, it could be a valuable framework for upgrading Euromed relations.
The long negotiations to enter the OECD somewhat detracted from the attention the government of Israel devoted to the powerful message initially sent by the EU in 2003-2004 offering Israel a “stake in the Internal Market.”
“Europa pierde el tiempo abandonando a la orilla sur, a pesar de que su destino histórico sea ser solidaria con el Magreb, también con el África negra. Los europeos saben que su futuro depende de ello”.
Los cambios en el mundo árabe suponen un estímulo para los palestinos, al tiempo que han hecho surgir un movimiento de protesta en Israel.
Pese a la esperanza de las revueltas, la política internacional y sus reglas de juego cambian con mucha mayor lentitud.
Without entirely discarding the institutional foundations of previous policy mechanisms, the EU is helping to forge a new policy matrix. Steps taken so far have been cautious, and rightly so.
Le « printemps arabe » est vieux maintenant d’une dizaine de mois. La question se pose toujours de savoir si l’Europe a cessé d’être négligente sur la question des réformes politiques chez les voisins du sud.
