The European Asylum Support Agency reports the coronavirus has led to a short-term drop in migration. FRANCE 24’s international affairs editor Douglas Herbert says this may lead to a surge of migration, from regions including sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, to Europe in the future. Subscribe to France 24 now: http://f24.my/youtubeEN FRANCE 24 live […]
Faced with the increasing influence of countries such as China and Russia, the EU is preparing a new strategy. This week, a record number of Commissioners travelled to Addis Ababa. Twenty members plus the president herself.… READ MORE : https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/27/eu-looks-to-reset-relations-with-africa-as-record-number-of-commissioners-visit-addis-abab Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/euronews?sub_confirmation=1 Watch our LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/c/euronews/live
Faced with the increasing influence of countries such as China and Russia, the EU is preparing a new strategy. This week, a record number of Commissioners travelled to Addis Ababa. Twenty members plus the president herself.… READ MORE : https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/27/eu-looks-to-reset-relations-with-africa-as-record-number-of-commissioners-visit-addis-abab Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/euronews?sub_confirmation=1 Watch our LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/c/euronews/live
The relationship between the European Union and the Middle East is facing a critical period of change, given the changing leadership in key European Union bodies, rising tensions with regard to Iran, and increasing confrontation between the United States and Iran. The Middle East Institute is pleased to invite you to a conversation with MEI […]
MEI scholar Przemysław Osiewicz joins host Alistair Taylor to discuss EU-Middle East relations and key policy issues, from Iran and Israel-Palestine to Libya and Syria.
The EU’s foreign policy chief criticized the peace plan as endorsing Israeli territorial expansion at the expense of a viable Palestinian state. Learn more about this story at https://www.newsy.com/97611/ Find more videos like this at https://www.newsy.com Follow Newsy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newsyvideos Follow Newsy on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/newsy
At its latest plenary session, the European Parliament approved a resolution on the Green Deal. EPP Group MEP Esther de Lange says the deal aimed at reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 should include industrial and trade policies to ensure a just transition to greener jobs. EPP Group MEP Siegfried Mureșan called for more funding for […]
Please join the Wilson Center Africa Program for a discussion on “U.S.-Africa Economic Relations at the State Level” on Wednesday, November 6 from 1:00 pm to 4:15 pm in the Wilson Center’s 6th Floor Auditorium. A reception will follow the event from 4:15 pm to 4:45 pm. This event will focus on economic relations between […]
Russia has big plans in Africa, especially whet it comes to mineral resources. Until now, Russia has seen relatively muted trade with Africa. Exports and imports to the entire continent were valued at only around 20 billion dollars last year. In comparison China had over ten times that amount. Africa’s largest trading partner during that […]
On June 28, the Brookings Institution hosted a panel conversation to discuss the impact of militias in the Middle East and North Africa, and the best ways to address them. https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-impact-of-militias-on-local-governance-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/ (transcript available) Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BrookingsInstitution Follow Brookings on social media! Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/Brookings Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BrookingsInst Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/brookingsinst LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/com/company/the-brookings-institution
Hudson Institute will host Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Tibor Nagy for a discussion on the future of U.S.-Africa relations. Ambassador Nagy will offer keynote remarks on the Trump administration’s new Africa Strategy, which seeks to advance prosperity, security, and stability on a continent projected to double in population by 2050, with the […]
On March 6th, after three years of work, MENARA Project unveiled its findings during the public conference The Middle East and the EU: New Realities, New Policies held at Egmont Palace in Brussels. During the event, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the EU Commission […]
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http://www.ukipmeps.org | http://ukip.org/join • European Parliament, Strasbourg, 13 March 2018 • Raymond Finch MEP, UK Independence Party (South East), Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group – @raymondfinch • Debate: Situation in Syria Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy [2018/2626(RSP)] The vote will […]
The European Union, under an agreement published on Monday, will provide funds to Mali to help it create jobs and strengthen border management. In return, the African country will help in fighting people smugglers and accepting deportees from Europe. The EU is stepping up migration collaboration with countries of origin and transit in Africa and […]
The European Commission unveiled a proposal on Tuesday aimed at stemming the flow of migrants from Africa to Europe. It is based on a similar migration pact that the 28-member bloc struck with Turkey in March. EU officials say they will work with countries from Africa, but also the Middle East. The idea will be […]
Claus Offe was Professor of Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance until 2015. He is Co-Chair of the Dahrendorf Forum Working Group ‘Europe and the MENA-region’. Interview recorded on 21 January 2016.
Thousands of migrants are trying to reach Europe to escape war zones in the Middle East and poverty and turmoil in Africa. Germany has suspended the Dublin regulation – a system where asylum seekers must make their applications in the first EU country they reach – for Syrians. So what are the rules governing immigration […]
Dozens of young African men look forlornly through the iron bars of a detention centre on the Libyan coast. They’re migrants from across the continent – Senegal, Gambia, Eritrea – and many say they’ve been detained in the city of Sabratha after attempting to reach Europe in a smuggler’s boat. Each year, thousands of people […]
(21 Feb 2011) 1. European President Herman van Rompuy arriving 2. Cutaway of media 3. Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn arriving 4. Cutaway of media 5. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg Foreign Minister : “We have to give a signal here that we understand them (the people in Libya). This is not that we tell […]
English/Nat: British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook is set to confront Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe over the violent political turmoil gripping the former British colony. President Mugabe was due to lead the Zimbabwean delegation at a two-day E-U-Africa summit, getting underway in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Monday. The Zimbabwean and UK delegations will be seated […]
1. Wide of conference hall at Davos World Economic Forum, British Prime Minister arriving on stage 2. Mid of Blair standing up and reaching podium, thanking audience (applauding before he starts his speech) 3. Cutaway audience applauding 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister: “Without the biggest economies being part of a framework to […]
The EU has launched a program aimed at enhancing economic integration across Africa with an initial investment of over 400 M Euro. This comes hot on the heels of an earlier pledge by the United States to invest up to $17 B, in a variety of sectors across Africa.
Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou welcomes the UN’s greenlight for France’s military presence in the Central African Republic which began on Friday with French soldiers patrolling in the capital Bangui. Duration: 01:15
About the Speech: The Managing Director for Africa in the EEAS, Nick Westcott, examined the multi-faceted and diverse nature of relations between the EU and Africa, from Europe’s ongoing humanitarian assistance efforts with a number of African partner states, to the increasing trade and investment links between the EU and high-growth economies such as South […]
President Obama lays out his vision for a new chapter in American diplomacy as calls for reform and democracy spread across the Middle East and North Africa, and in light of the death of Osama bin Laden. May 19, 2011.
Richard Youngs, director of FRIDE, analyses the EU’s reaction to the turmoil in the Arab world and points out what the European Union should and should not do in the region.
Nick Clegg, Lib Dem leader, and deputy Prime Minister of the UK visited Brussels this week. During his visit the British deputy leader met with Catherine Ashton to discuss EU policy in relation to the Middle East, and North Africa, policy which Clegg says needs ‘serious reinvention’
This panel discussion covers the current unrest in the Middle East and North Africa The panel discussion features: Adel Allouche, Lecturer, Department of History, Yale University, Adria Lawrence, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University, Ellen Lust, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University, Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor, John F. Kennedy School of […]
