The purpose of this report is to evaluate the effectiveness of EU policies and measures in the energy field in light of the needs and interests of local bottom-up actors in Egypt. The report firstly aims to provide an overview of the Egyptian energy sector, by revising the most relevant literature and institutional documentation to define [...]
The present report aims to investigate Euro-Mediterranean policies in the energy sector in Lebanon from a bottom-up perspective. The main findings are the following: Lebanon faces enormous challenges such as poor grid quality, shortage in production, important losses, dependency on imports, low development of renewable energy (RE), lack of investment and regular outages. A vigorous policy [...]
This document summarizes the findings of MEDRESET Work Package 3 (WP3). This WP surveyed elite responses to EU policies in the Mediterranean region through a comprehensive qualitative fieldwork having covered 9 different countries (i.e. Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey). Respondents were asked to analyse their countries’ resistance to or adoption of [...]
This MEDRESET Policy Brief summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP7 on migration, mobility and asylum in the Mediterranean and identifies policy implications Read the full MEDRESET Policy Brief Read the Arabic Version
On the 14th of December, MEDRESET will hold a conference on "Re-thinking Euro-Mediterranean Relations in a Changing Regional and Global Setting" in Istanbul. The conference is organized by PODEM and will address the Euro-Mediterranean relations with a special focus on irregular migration through a high-level discussion among prestigious representatives of international organizations, civil societies, universities and think-tanks. Programme
This report on the industrial sector in Tunisia falls within the European project MEDRESET. It analyses with a bottom-up perspective the European policies towards the Southern Mediterranean. The study’s main outcome is the following: there is no industrial policy per se in Tunisia, namely following the 2011 revolution despite the efforts and reflection to pull Tunisia [...]
This report focuses on the industry sector in Morocco as part of the MEDRESET project financed by the European Union. Through interviews with relevant stakeholders, it examines the Euro-Mediterranean politics that promote industry in Morocco. The methodology is briefly described at the beginning of this report; however, further details are stated in the MEDRESET Methodology and [...]
