EU is now focused on sealing its external borders. Instead, it should have championed stability and economic growth in the countries of departure and transit, while creating regular migration routes.
Arturo Varvelli analyses the politicization of the migration issue in UE between electoral deadlines and NGO’s criminalization
Moscow is focused on having an outpost in Libya and consolidating the relations with the country, while Haftar seeks new credibility and support from the Kremlin after Prigozhin’s death
Arturo Varvelli comments the encounter between Khalifa Haftar and Vladimir Putin, the first since 2019
The West finds itself in a position where it cannot conclude agreements with the Kremlin on Iran, but with Tehran there is an opportunity for openness
Ellie Geranmayeh and Nicole Grajewski examine the growing convergence between Russia and Iran, shedding light on the extent of their burgeoning partnership and elucidating the fresh challenges that the Western world confronts as this alliance intensifies
Russia and Iran can work in areas where there are common interests, but also avoid areas of tension and work more towards where they really have synergies
Ellie Geranmayeh and Nicole Grajewski discuss the extent to which Russia and Iran have come closer together and outline the new risks the West faces as the union deepens
Kelly Petillo comments on the responses to the recent surge of immigrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa
I would refrain from considering Morocco’s lack of acceptance of humanitarian aid from France as a milestone or a further step in the framework of tensions between the two countries
Lorena Stella Martini comments on Morocco’s acceptance of aid from third countries in the wake of the recent earthquake
Derna’s citizens are afraid: the Russian, Emirate and Egyptian military could exploit the situation to loot what is left of the city and root their presence on the ground
Tarek Megerisi comments on the international race to provide aid to Eastern Libya and what this might mean for the geopolitics of the Mediterranean
Especially in the runup to an election year for President Biden, I do think there’s going to be pitfalls here
Ellie Geranmayeh comments on the future of Washington-Tehran engagement after Biden’s prisoner swap deal
