Briefs / Focus / Spot Ons

L’économie bleue, un défi pour les pays du sud de la Méditerranée : le cas de l’Algérie
  • Focus

L’économie bleue, un défi pour les pays du sud de la Méditerranée : le cas de l’Algérie

Comme d’autres pays de la rive sud de la Méditerranée, l’Algérie est un pays à fort potentiel de développement de l’économie bleue. Mais il ne peut être appliquée sans une base de connaissances ciblées et fiables.

22 febrero 2022
Navigating the Intersection between Mediation and Digital Technology: Opportunities to Strengthen EU Peace Capacities
  • Policy Brief

Navigating the Intersection between Mediation and Digital Technology: Opportunities to Strengthen EU Peace Capacities

This policy brief examines how digital technologies are incorporated into EU mediation practices so far, and how the EU can better integrate digital technologies to enhance its peace mediation approach.

21 febrero 2022
Big Data at the Crossroads: Seizing the Potential of Big Data to Guide the Future of EU Migration Policy
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Big Data at the Crossroads: Seizing the Potential of Big Data to Guide the Future of EU Migration Policy

This policy brief assesses the opportunities presented by the use of big data to improve the analysis of migration-related phenomena and inform migration and integration policies

15 febrero 2022
Youth Green Skills: Ensuring that Young People are Educated and Skilled Today for a Sustainable Future
  • Policy Brief

Youth Green Skills: Ensuring that Young People are Educated and Skilled Today for a Sustainable Future

This policy brief offers recommendations to key stakeholders and institutions on how to support youths on the paths towards their green skills development in the Mediterranean region.

9 febrero 2022
The Role of Non-State Actors in Digitised Migration Management. The Impacts and Limits of Digitalisation on the EU’s Externalised Migration Control in the Mediterranean
  • Policy Brief

The Role of Non-State Actors in Digitised Migration Management. The Impacts and Limits of Digitalisation on the EU’s Externalised Migration Control in the Mediterranean

This Policy Brief provides recommendations on how to avoid side effects of digitalisation in the field of migration management for EU policy-makers.

8 febrero 2022
Environmental Fiscal Reform in the MENA region. The Case of Egypt: Lessons and Challenges
  • Policy Brief

Environmental Fiscal Reform in the MENA region. The Case of Egypt: Lessons and Challenges

It provides insights on the state of play of environmental fiscal reform in Egypt and formulates recommendations on ways to make the environmental tax reform more impactful in terms of reduction of the level of emissions, incentivisation of the use a...

7 febrero 2022
Rebuilding Libya’s Economy on New and Sustainable Grounds
  • Policy Brief

Rebuilding Libya’s Economy on New and Sustainable Grounds

It provides recommendations to Libyan policy-makers on how to manage this transitional process and to the international community on the suitable way to support Libya in this effort.

7 febrero 2022
Could Digital Transition Be the Answer to Sustainable Refugee-Run Businesses? A case study on small businesses run led by refugees in Egypt
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Could Digital Transition Be the Answer to Sustainable Refugee-Run Businesses? A case study on small businesses run led by refugees in Egypt

It provides recommendations to donors and relevant stakeholders on ways to further empower vulnerable refugees residing in Egypt and help them sustain their businesses in the context of the market’s digital transformation.

7 febrero 2022
Iran and the United States: Four Decades of Tension and Missed Opportunities
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Iran and the United States: Four Decades of Tension and Missed Opportunities

Iran-United States (US) relations have been confrontational for decades, making this relationship one of the most challenging in the world for the US to manage.

27 enero 2022
Diaspora, Transnationalism, Political Remittances and Lebanese Migrants
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Diaspora, Transnationalism, Political Remittances and Lebanese Migrants

Diasporic relations and issues are transnational in character but they assume different characteristics. The space of activities involving diasporic relations and issues spreads across national borders.

27 enero 2022
Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean: Grasping the Scope of the Challenge
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Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean: Grasping the Scope of the Challenge

The Mediterranean remains one of the least protected regions in the world while its natural resources are under heavy pressure.

22 noviembre 2021
Israel, Jordan and UAE come closer on a new water-renewable deal brokered by the US. What does it mean for the EU?
  • Spot On

Israel, Jordan and UAE come closer on a new water-renewable deal brokered by the US. What does it mean for the EU?

The United Arab Emirates-brokered energy and water agreement between Israel and Jordan could pave the way for greater European Union (EU) involvement and support for regional integration on climate and water issues in the Middle Eas

18 noviembre 2021