Change and opportunities in the emerging Mediterranean

The historic transformation that has taken place across the Southern Mediterranean in 2011, with regime change in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and upheavals in other Arab countries, demands a strategic reassessment of European Union policy making towards the region. The complex policy framework that has resulted from the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, (EMP), the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) must be reviewed in light of the new political landscape that has emerged in North Africa. The European Union’s strategic objective must be that of formulating a better coordinated cooperative mechanism in the Mediterranean that provides direct support to the Middle East and North African countries at this delicate moment of political and economic transition.peer-reviewe