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MED – MEDITERRANEAN DIALOGUES is the annual high-level initiative promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and ISPI (Italian Institute for International Political Studies) in Rome with the aim to rethink traditional approaches to the area complementing analyses of current challenges with new ideas and suggestions and to draft a new “positive agenda”, addressing shared challenges at both the regional and the international level.
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Heal and Rebuild: A Positive Agenda for the EU in the Enlarged Mediterranean
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We need to have trusted and accountable leaderships at all levels to fight this pandemic and many other challenges.
Ahmed Al-Mandhari
Director, Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO)
The convergence of conflicts, climate, and now COVID has led four countries on the brink of famine: Yemen, South Sudan, Northern Nigeria, Burkina Faso.
Valerie N. Guarnieri
Assistant Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP)
Trust in governments has weakened even more in the Middle East.
Ghassan Salamé
UN Former Special Representative for Libya
Gender-based violence has increased during the Covid-19 crisis, and this is another pandemic.
Begoña Lasagabaster
Country Representative in Tunisia and Libya, UN Women
Lebanon is in a transitional period, a very dangerous one, a very unprecedented one, and in a historic position.
Charbel Wehbi
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Lebanon
Turkey is against nuclear weapons, in our region and beyond.
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Women are playing a dual role, they have their jobs but they also have to take care of their families
Nadia Shahin
General Manager, Kawar Group, Jordan
We need to hope for the future, but at the same time we need to work for the future.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran
We should always have that hope that as we evolve and as we develop we can see hope for a very effective, sustainable secuity structure for this region.
Sayyid Badr Bin Hamad Bin Hamood Al Busaidi
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Oman
The issue of refugees is not receiving the attention it needs. Investing in refugees is investing in our collective security.
Ayman Safadi
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Jordan
Despite lockdowns, drug trafficking continued, with some disruptions, but didn’t stop.
Angela Me
Chief of the Research and Trend Analysis Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Covid-19 has not impacted our long-term strategy, but somehow it has even accelerated it.
Lapo Pistelli
Director Public Affairs, ENI
Concerning the Abraham Accords, the real question is: will Saudi Arabia change its position vis à vis the Arab Peace initiative?
Elham Fakhro
Senior Analyst, Gulf States, International Crisis Group (ICG)
The public health emergency might have exacerbated existing circumstances, but it has played little, if any, role in the development of the Libyan political crisis.
Paolo Magri
Executive Vice President, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Italy
The status quo in Syria is not sustainable for another 10 years.
Andrey Kortunov
Director, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Russian Federation
Covid-19 has accelerated global trends and will likely increase brain drain across the southern Mediterranean.
Marina Sereni
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy
The current situation in Yemen is vital to the security of the region.
Mohammed A. Al-Hadhrami
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yemen
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Bosnia: emergenza migranti ai confini dell’UE
Centinaia di migranti bloccati a pochi chilometri dall’Europa, costretti a trascorrere le giornate all’aperto e con temperature che ogni notte scendono sotto lo zero. Con l’incendio e la chiusura del campo di Lipa, in Bosnia-Erzegovina, si riaccendono (a fatica) i riflettori su una delle emergenze umanitarie più vicine ai confini europei e italiani. Da quando la Croazia, con il sostegno dell’Unione europea, ha stretto le maglie sugli attraversamenti irregolari delle proprie frontiere, le crisi si ripresentano periodicamente.
Come siamo arrivati fino a qui? Quanto incide, oggi, la pandemia sulle condizioni dei migranti? E quali sono le soluzioni possibili?
#migrantibosnia
Intervengono:
Annalisa Camilli, Giornalista, Internazionale
Silvia Maraone, Coordinatrice progetti sulla rotta balcanica, Ipsia-Caritas
Chiara Milan, Research Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore
Matteo Villa, Research Fellow, Programma Migrazioni, ISPI
Dopo l’incendio che ha distrutto il campo profughi di Lipa, i migranti arrivati in Bosnia ed Erzegovina con la speranza di attraversare la frontiera con la Croazia ed entrare nell’UE vivono in condizioni disastrose.
Ne parliamo nell’#ISPIDailyFocus e, dalle 18.00, all’evento online di ISPI → bit.ly/3ipFeYy
Alexei Navalny, il più famoso oppositore di Putin, domenica è tornato in Russia dalla Germania, dove è rimasto in cura per cinque mesi dopo essere stato salvato per miracolo da un avvelenamento.
Appena rientrato nel suo paese, in meno di 24 ore, è stato arrestato, processato e condannato a 30 giorni di detenzione. L’accusa è di aver violato i termini di una condanna del 2014.
Oggi collegata alla conferenza sulla situazione dei migranti bloccati in Bosnia organizzata da @ispionline (è sempre bello rivedere @ChiaraNalim!)
#MigrantiBosnia https://twitter.com/ispionline/status/1351568996924067841
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