Office Assistant, ECFR Rome
Morocco; Iraq; Social movements, Human rights & gender issues in the MENA region
Italian, English, French, Arabic, Spanish
Lorena Stella Martini is the national office assistant in Rome of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, she held the position of advocacy and communication assistant in the same office.
Martini holds a double master’s degree in comparative analysis of Mediterranean societies and international studies from the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Morocco) and the University of Turin. She previously obtained a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies from the Graduate School of Economics and International Relations (ASERI) at the Catholic University of Milan, and a bachelor’s degree in languages for international relations (majors: English and Arabic) from the same university. Throughout her university years, she spent several months in Morocco. Martini has prior professional experience with think tanks and NGOs, and has done research on individual freedoms in Morocco. She is particularly interested in sociopolitical dynamics in the MENA region, with a focus on Morocco and Iraq.
The EU has responded to a huge influx of Ukrainian refugees with an unprecedented show of solidarity. It should take this opportunity to develop a common asylum policy.
Migration is first and foremost a structural problem, yet the EU persists in responding to it as an emergency. Now is the time to change course.
The situation will not improve if we continue to treat migration solely as an emergency
Lorena Stella Martini comments on Italy’s decision to adopt a status of emergency over migration
From an economic point of view, the situation in Tunisia is certainly worrisome – but this is not starting now
Lorena Stella Martini comments on Tunisia’s dramatic economic outlook
Recent evolutions in the international framework have created a suitable opening for a renewed strategic partnership between the two countries
Lorena Stella Martini comments on the relevance of Italian PM Meloni’s recent visit to the UAE for the future of the strategic partnership between Rome and Abu Dhabi
Both parties have interests in fostering this relation and making it work and go further. To do so, they have to remain firm in their commitments and cooperate to reach realistic and sustainable goals
Lorena Stella Martini comments on the strengthening of relations between Italy and Algeria in the framework of Meloni’s visit to Algiers.
Lorena Martini says the Ukraine crisis should galvanize more European solidarity toward asylum-seekers from elsewhere
