Scientists in the Mediterranean still face substantial challenges as they work to expand scientific capacity and pursue cross-Mediterranean collaboration.
The Global Gateway initiative could set a new paradigm for Euro-Mediterranean relations, fostering a more sustainable, equitable, and stable regional order.
While the water crisis is today a global phenomenon that interests pretty much all countries and regions across latitudes, the MENA region is often singled out as a key hotspot for both the water crisis and water conflicts.
In recent years, only Serbia and, in part, Bosnia and Herzegovina (particularly the Republika Srpska entity)have decided to pursue closer relations with China in strategic areas.
The Middle East is experiencing a spike in the production, trafficking and consumption of illicit narcotics, raising risks to governance, rule of law, public health and human security.
With its indiscriminate bombardments, Israel squandered Western sympathy. Its relentless onslaught on Gaza sounded the alarm bells in the United States and Europe and sparked great indignation in the “Global South”.
African countries are seeking a greater degree of freedom to establish relations that could benefit them with new partners (China, Russia, Brazil and India) but none offers the same advantages as the EU.
For the first time, the gender dimension of the conflict, with an extra focus on sexual violence, has been at the heart of both the physical and symbolic battlefield.
The state of humanitarian aid and aid workers in Gaza is precarious. Aid workers are unable to access many parts of the enclave at risk of their own safety.
The Abraham Accords are likely to survive the war on Gaza, as economic, political, security and defence interests now far outweigh support for the Palestinian issue.
