The MED This Week newsletter provides expert analysis and informed insights upon the most significant developments within the MENA region, bringing together unique opinions on the topic and reliable foresight upon future scenarios. Today we turn the spotlight on investments in infrastructure, which are increasingly important to let Southern Mediterranean countries fully unlock their economic potential.
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The relations between the DRC and Rwanda have continued to deteriorate since the analysis published here in mid-June. At the centre of the renewed conflict in eastern DRC is the longstanding rivalry between Rwanda and Uganda, the stakes being both military and economic.
25 novembre 2022
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La capacità di calcolo dei supercomputer cresce esponenzialmente. E l’Europa è in prima fila per vincere questa nuova competizione globale.
25 novembre 2022
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Over the last twenty years, the European Union (EU) has developed strong credentials in tackling climate and sustainable development-related issues, having actively contributed to the achievement of milestone international agreements and been the frontrunner in the design and implementation of climate and environmental policies at large.
24 novembre 2022
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Armed groups play a central role in Libya and Yemen. Pervading weak and contested institutions, they have gradually brought their survival, profit and governance strategies under the state umbrella: warlords have become the new lords of the state.
24 novembre 2022
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Libya’s decade of crisis
18 novembre 2022
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Unlike with violent upheavals and wars that have recently shaken the broader Middle East and North African region, in Mali, the West—specifically Europe led by France—decided to mitigate the crisis through a long-term military engagement, though not as extensive as in Afghanistan or Iraq. European intervention in the Sahel became sort of the laboratory for a joint EU military culture before Russians contributed to the erosion of this exercise.
18 novembre 2022
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The region encompassing the Middle East, North Africa, and the Sahel is studded with complex and multi-layered conflicts in which local and international dynamics interact. While this may sound like a simple truth, it has important implications regarding conflict management. Across the region, few wars are limited to one country and are internally resolvable. In most cases (Russia, Libya, Mali, Yemen), local and regional actors, foreign players, and international organizations have become protagonists of these crises’ destinies.
18 novembre 2022
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Established to tackle global crisis in 1999 at the level of Finance Ministers and Governors of the Central Banks and then scaled up to Summit level in 2009 at Pittsburgh, USA, the G-20 has evolved over the years not only to deliver in terms of coordination in dealing with various global challenges on finance related fronts. Since 2012 onwards it has also included key development issues, concerning global economic governance. At this point, the G20 grouping represents around 65 percent of the global population and 79 percent of global trade.
14 novembre 2022
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After the start of the war in Ukraine, the challenge of improving our global health fell into oblivion. This represents not only a medical problem, but a serious ethical issue as well. According to the United Nations Secretary General António Gutierrez, health inequalities after the pandemic were “an obscenity”. The picture is getting worse every day due to an appalling loss of the world's ability to react to new health threats, and the deterioration of living conditions of the poorest populations with its clinical consequences.
14 novembre 2022