ECFR Alumni · Office Assistant, ECFR Rome
Morocco; Iraq; Social movements, Human rights & gender issues in the MENA region
Italian, English, French, Arabic, Spanish
Lorena Stella Martini was 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.
Europeans need to stop handing control of their borders to southern Mediterranean states. Instead, they should pursue measures that tie the short-term imperative to reduce irregular migration to longer-term strategies that lessen the need for people to migrate in the first place
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.
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
It is particularly worrying that the wording of the new cybercrime law is so vague, as several of its articles can be interpreted and instrumentally applied to the most diverse cases
Lorena Stella Martini comments on the impact of the new Jordan cybercrime law on citizens’ rights and freedoms
In the case of a renewal, Morocco wants to negotiate terms with the EU to reach a more advanced partnership with a clear-added value for Rabat
Lorena Stella Martini comments on the future of the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement
How could we possibly think that a country in such dire political and economic conditions could effectively and transparently deliver on this delicate dossier?
Lorena Stella Martini comments on the latest MoU between the EU and Tunisia, raising doubts on the possibility of opening a transparent pathway of cooperation centered on the operative fight against illegal migration with Tunis
All of this may have implications for other areas of EU-Morocco relations
Lorena Stella Martini explains why the Western Sahara issue is not just about the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement