Publications

This policy brief looks at the future of economic reform in the turbulent southern Mediterranean region.

This policy brief examines economic relations between China and Mediterranean countries.

This policy brief examines scenarios for expanded regional transportation cooperation in the Mediterranean Basin.

In this latest of the Paralleli Brief series, the author outlines Turkey's economic ties in the eastern Mediterranean region.

This policy brief examines the implications of economic reforms in Syria on its relationship with countries in the West.

Prospects for European direct investments in Mediterranean countries and for Euro-Mediterranean trade flows are favorable. However, private actors playing the key role in promoting Mediterranean economic integration, while political initiatives languish.

This fourth contribution from Franco Zallio examines how the Mediterranean region has coped with the international economic crisis. He explains that renewed growth in Mediterranean countries will promote greater regional integration, both with European countries and within the southern Mediterranean.

Last year Egypt recorded a growth rate far better than other major countries in the MENA region. This good performance has not prevented, however, the rise in unemployment. In order to decisively reduce its substantial social problems, and strengthen its regional role, Egypt needs an extended period of high economic growth, which in turn requires deepening the economic reforms launched in 2004. The negative effects of the international crisis, together with the 2010-2011 elections, hamper this process and cloud the outlook.

Taking stock of recent changes in the natural gas market, this brief explores the implications for transatlantic relations and interdependence between Europe and the Southern Mediterranean.

This brief, the first in a series on the Mediterranean and the economic crisis, explores the impact of the global pressures on key countries in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, including Israel and Turkey. The analysis suggests that most countries in the region are weathering the financial aspects of the crisis reasonably well, helped in some cases by a sharp recovery in energy prices.