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 Paper
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 MEDRESET Policy Brief summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP4 on political ideas in the Mediterranean and identifies policy implications Read the full Policy Report
This document summarizes the findings of MEDRESET’s WP5 on “Agriculture and Water”, which aims at evaluating the effectiveness and potential of EU trade and assistance policies in the area of agriculture and water (including trade liberalization, EU-funded agro-food and water projects and cooperation initiatives) Read the full Policy Report
Le 22 et le 23 Novembre, l'Université Moulay Ismail (Maroc) organise, à la mémoire de de feu Noureddine Harami, la 7ème édition du colloque international "DROIT À LA MOBILITÉ : REGARDS CROISÉS SUR LE RÔLEDES ÉTATS ET DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CIVILE". Le colloque se tiendra à la Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines. Programme
Jad Chaaban, Associate Professor - American University of Beirut (AUB) «As you might know, Lebanon hosts more than 1.5 millions of Syrian refugees. This has come definitively with problems in the Lebanese society and economy but I would like to argue that the Syrian refugee presence has been more beneficial, for the Lebanese economy, than it [...]
"In order to discuss migration in the context of Europe and Mediterranean it is essential to take a step back in history: to a period where the current situation has its roots. And that is back in the ’90, when Europe started to erect a series of barriers to mobility across the Mediterranean: visa started to [...]
MEDRESET's Elite Survey in numbers Our partner institutions conducted a regional survey between July 2017 and May 2018, with 169 interviews in 9 countries. The aim of the study was to assess the perception of the EU, and the effectiveness and potential of EU policies in the Mediterranean region from the perspective of local elite. The results will [...]
MEDRESET is going to be present, together with MENARA, another EU-funded research project, at the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Seville between 16 and 20 July with a series of research panels. The panels will revolve around issues such as the water-food-energy nexus, the challenges to the regional order and the EU policies towards [...]
