The EU, the Middle East and North Africa [What Think Tanks are thinking]

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is of strategic importance for the European Union because of its proximity, historic links, energy resources, trade routes and ability to export instability that results from wars, political volatility and poverty in the region. The EU wants to contribute to stability in MENA through such instruments as the European Neighbourhood Policy, the Barcelona Process and the Union for the Mediterranean.

This note offers links to recent commentaries and reports by major international think tanks EU-MENA relations, general problems of the region and some of its countries. More reports on the region can be found in a previous edition of 'What Think Tanks are Thinking' on the EU's southern neighbourhood.

ESO: Background information: The EU’s Southern Neighbourhood [What Think Tanks are thinking] http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-eus-southern-neighbourhood-what-think-tanks-are-thinking/

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