The present report analyses the situation of Tunisia concerning the energy sector in the framework of the EU-funded project MEDRESET. It aims to investigate Euro-Mediterranean policy in the energy sector from a bottom-up perspective. The main findings are the following: concerning energy, Tunisia faces a huge change in its energy status. Until the revolution, Tunisia had [...]
This report is aimed at presenting the views of European stakeholders on EU policies relating to industry and energy in the SEM region. It is organized in two parts. The first provides an overview of activities and mechanisms of cooperation of the main European actors involved in the energy and industry sectors of the Mediterranean region [...]
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 Morocco. The report firstly provides an overview of the Moroccan energy sector. It reviews the most relevant literature to define current and future trends, to [...]
Eckart Woertz, Senior research fellow at CIDOB explains to MEDRESET what are the impacts of the EU's policies, in the water and agriculture sectors, in the MENA region.
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
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 [...]
