Egypt: on the road to disaster
The worst forecasts are unfolding in Egypt. One year of the Muslim Brotherhood’s incompetent and sectarian governance polarised Egyptian society.
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood
Libya and the problematic Political Isolation Law
The fifth of May of 2013 could go down in history as the day in which the democratic transition in Libya was derailed. It was on this date that an ample majority of Libya’s interim parliament was coerced by armed militias into passing the Political Isolation Law. The law’s application could condemn the country to live anchored to its dramatic past.
Does the US know what it is doing in the Middle East?
Does a power like the US know what it is doing in a region as important and complex as the Middle East? The question may sound like a provocation, but from its answer stem enormous implications for the international system.
Promoting low-carbon energies in Mediterranean partner countries
Renewable energies remain marginal in the European neighbourhood, and their contribution to economic and human development is still largely unexplored.
The missing spring in the EU’s Mediterranean policies
The fall of the wall of fear in Arab societies represents a major challenge, of unknown proportions for Europe, but also an unprecedented opportunity for building a new regional stability based on good governance, inclusive development and mutually beneficial exchanges.
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