It has been more than 25 years since the European Union (EU) established its policy initiative towards the Mediterranean region, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), also known as the ‘Barcelona Process’. The policy framework was reconsidered and reframed within the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) that was launched in 2004. The review of the
On 28 August 2020, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Prime Minister Ersin Tatar declared Northern Cyprus to be “the most successful state” in Europe in the struggle against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that was officially declared as a (global) pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11March 2020. Prime Minister Tatar argued
While the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic meant a brief pause in the fast-paced energy politics of the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey’s NAVTEX in July, that it was sending its Oruç Reis research ship to carry out a seismic survey in the Southeastern Aegean Sea claimed by Turkey and Greece as their sovereign continental shelf have
The subsequent statements by ExxonMobil in early April and ENI and Total in early May to put their programmes on hold following the slump in the demand and drop in the prices of oil due to the pandemic and the Saudi-Russian rift seem to have altered the momentum in the struggle for power in the
10 Kasım'da seçime gidecek İspanya'da ülkenin doğusundaki Katalonya özerk yönetimine bağlı Adalet Yüksek Mahkemesi’nin (Tribunal Superior de Justícia de Catalunya, TSJC) bağımsızlık yanlısı Katalan siyasetçilere verdiği mahkumiyet kararları İspanya ve Katalonya arasındaki gerginliği son günlerde bir kez daha arttırdı. Katalonya Adalet Yüksek Mahkemesi tarafından 14 Ekim tarihinde alınan kararla 2017'de Katalan parlamentosu tarafından düzenlenen ve
The upcoming elections in Ukraine has once again put the EU-NATO relations under limelight. The political crisis which unravelled in Ukraine in 2013 was a grim instance which laid bare the precarious nature of the “European security architecture” in the post-Cold War period. Many would agree that the crisis which culminated in the Russian annexation
Cebelitarık yönetimi 17 Şubat Pazar günü yaptığı açıklamada, İspanya'ya ait bir savaş gemisinin, limanlarında bulunan ticari gemilere, bölgeyi terk etmesi emrini verdiğini, İngiltere Donanması'nın karşılık vermesi üzerine İspanya'ya ait savaş gemisinin bölgeden uzaklaştığını bildirdi. Cebelitarık yönetimi İspanya bayraklı savaş gemisinin tutumunu “aptal oyunlar” olarak niteledi. İspanya'nın güneyinde yaklaşık 30 bin kişinin yaşadığı Cebelitarık yarımadası1704 yılında İngiliz ve Hollandalı
