The MED This Week newsletter provides expert analysis and informed insights on the MENA region's most significant issues and trends, bringing together unique opinions on the topic and reliable foresight on possible future scenarios. Today, we place the spotlight upon the recent visit of the Italian President of the Council of Ministers Giorgia Meloni to Algeria, focusing on Italy’s renewed activism within the wider Mediterranean region.
The MED This Week newsletter provides expert analysis and informed comments on the MENA region’s most significant issues and trends. Today, we focus on the upcoming 31st Arab League Summit, where representatives of national governments will convene in Algeria, after a hiatus of more than three years, to address the most relevant current issues concerning the Arab world.
In dire straits just a year ago, Algeria’s leaders show a new swagger today that might suggest the country has turned a corner. But when Algerians lament (as they often do) how little ever changes in their country, they do so for good reason: beneath today’s triumphal veneer, ominously familiar patterns swirl.
Sul piano interno, gli ultimi mesi hanno confermato il percorso di lenta ma progressiva stabilizzazione dell’economia algerina iniziato già nell’ultimo trimestre del 2021, sulla spinta dei crescenti introiti provenienti dal comparto energetico e legati all’aumento dei prezzi del petrolio in seguito alla guerra in Ucraina. Queste risorse hanno consentito alle autorità di consolidare, almeno in parte, le finanze statali e avere un margine di manovra più ampio per affrontare il problema dell’inflazione.
Algeria’s military apparatus, the National Popular Army (NPA) — with its diverse cliques and personalities, vaunted counterterrorism experience, and intelligence capabilities — encompasses internal security structures and plays an important (if oversized) role in deterring and dictating the country’s political affairs and policies. The military has been able to subordinate peer groups within significant power structures, be they the political class, technocrats, the business elite, civil society, or the media.
Algeri è oggi un partner chiave per Italia e UE per gli idrocarburi. Ma un’economia poco diversificata e le tensioni con Madrid limitano le opportunità.
Mosca, addio?
Oggi il premier Draghi è in visita in Algeria, insieme al ministro degli Esteri Di Maio e all’amministratore delegato di Eni Descalzi, per incontrare il presidente algerino Tebboune. L’obiettivo? Aumentare le forniture di gas dall’Algeria e ridurre quelle dalla Russia.
L'Algeria è in prima fila come fornitore di energia alternativo alla Russia. Italia e Spagna sono i maggiori partner, ma le aspettative potrebbero essere eccessive.
The MED This Week newsletter provides expert analysis and informed comments on the MENA region's most significant issues and trends. Today we turn the spotlight on the challenges the United States is facing to shore up ties with unsatisfied allies in the Middle East and North Africa and tackle today's energy crisis.