Hopes were high when French President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of the Sahel Alliance at a G5 meeting in Nouakchott, Mauritania in July 2017. The new alliance’s goal was for France and Germany, along with other ..
In the latest in a series of provocative actions linked to the exploration of oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey recently carried out naval exercises in an area of that sea that Greece also considers its own ..
Italian coastguard has evacuated 49 people and taken to the island of Lampedusa but almost 400 others rescued refugees and migrants remained stranded in the central Mediterranean after an overcrowded rescue vessel was emptied of ..
The EU’s stated objective is to promote prosperity, stability and security in neighbouring countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). But in practice, the EU has had little success on all three counts. Even before ..
In recent weeks, there have been growing calls for the EU and the international community to take a firm stand behind the pro-democracy protests and against the Lukashenko regime in Belarus. However, as Niall McGlynn, an ..