Politics & Cooperation

Is There Room for a Renewed Euro-Mediterranean Partnership?

Is There Room for a Renewed Euro-Mediterranean Partnership?

The Barcelona Declaration promoted a Euro-Mediterranean government cooperation structure. Paradoxically, the year commemorating the 25th anniversary is the culmination of new vicissitudes that have raised the necessary adaptation of the declaration.

 10 November 2020
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Cooperation With Religious Institutions As A European Policy Tool

The workshop brings together 20 experts on religious affairs, migration and European as well as Middle East policy from Europe and the Middle East to discuss first drafts of research conducted in the framework of the EuroMeSCo project.

 12 November 2018

The Role of Russia in The Middle East And North Africa Region. Strategy or Opportunism?

Since late September 2015, the Russian military intervention in Syria has prompted the rise of expectations and speculations on Moscow’s intentions to impose itself as a central actor able to affect the course of events in the broader Middle East.

 12 October 2018

The Kurdish Question in the Middle East: Regional Dynamics and Return to National Control

The past four decades have seen an increasing regionalization of the Kurdish question on the Middle East scale.

 24 September 2018

From the Euro-Arab Dialogue to a Euro-Arab Summit: Revamping the EU-Arab Partnership

Since most Arab countries gained independence, structured Euro-Arab partnership has been characterized by a pattern of discontinuity to the extent that the EU has never held a Summit of Heads of State and Government with the Arab group.

 20 September 2018

Gulf Regional Crisis: Qatar-Saudi Arabia Rivalry, Tensions within the Gulf Cooperation Council

The isolation of Qatar by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has substantially failed, not only because of the immediate solidarity shown since June 2017 by Turkey and Iran.

 20 September 2018

Palestine’s Impasse: Israeli Occupation, Regional Conflicts and Internal Division

Unlike other situations, the principal context that shapes almost all of Palestine’s various political, economic and social dynamics, as well as all other aspects of Palestinian life, is the omnipresent Israeli military occupation.

 3 September 2018

Israel: between Political Crisis and Regional Challenges

2 April was an eventful day for the Israeli political system. In the early afternoon, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called an unexpected news conference, in which he announced the signing of an agreement between Israel and the UN Refugee Agency....

 28 August 2018

A Heterodox Vision for the Mediterranean

Next year, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first association agreements, signed by Mediterranean third countries of the Maghreb and the European Economic Community. During this long period, we witnessed a number of events that marked h...

 17 July 2018

Changing Euro-Mediterranean Lenses

EuroMeSCo organizes together with the OCP Policy Center the annual conference of EuroMeSCo 2018 "Changing Euro-Mediterranean Lenses".

 12 July 2018

France and the Mediterranean

France “and” the Mediterranean or France “in” the Mediterranean? Despite their great similarity, these two options are nonetheless profoundly different.

 29 June 2018

Whatever Happened to the Spirit of Barcelona?

Forged in the heady mid-nineties when it seemed that the bad old days of superpower rivalry were behind us, the Barcelona Declaration now looks like a high point for multilateralism in what the EU now terms the ‘Southern Neighbourhood.’

 27 June 2018

The Crisis of the European Project and Its Consequences for the Euro-Mediterranean Agenda

Whatever the depth of the European project’s ‘crisis,’ it is a ‘dual’ phenomenon, one internal, and the other external.

 25 June 2018