Publications

Publications Reports of the Observatories

Mediterranean Observatory – The European Southern Border

The outlying regions of the Maghreb in the south, within the Sahara Desert, are part of the old commercial routes along the Sahara and constitute economic spaces with shared identities and are distant sides of national territory. Since independence, the region’s states have devoted the economic development and investment in their coastal centres, leaving vast interior regions and borderlands forgotten and marginalized.

National publications Publications

The Arctic Ocean: a European perspective

Recent unexpectedly rapid melting of Arctic Ocean sea ice has captured the public imagination and created the impression of a „Race for the Arctic“. Beneath the heightened political rhetoric, national posturing and media hype about unresolved territorial claims, huge hydrocarbon resources and disappearing polar bears lies a complex and dynamic picture of disputed science, with inadequate data and unreliable predictions and increasing volatility in the energy market that is not
conducive to long term investment.

Publications Reports of the Observatories

Mediterranean Observatory – Early Warning: Algeria

Algeria is undergoing a transformation that might lead either to a true political transition or simply to a change of regime. Since the departure of Bouteflika, the regime’s margin to manoeuvre has increased a bit, but the people seem to believe that the president’s resignation was a way for his clan to gain time to install a successor close to it. The ruling powers are still in control and they do not want to hand over the power to the new Algerian generation until they will be satisfied with a compromise candidate. In the background the Algerian Army is protecting its unrelenting political dominance.

Publications Media/Opinion pieces

Galileo : ce système stratégique européen est devenu une réalité

Galileo, système européen de navigation par satellites, est opérationnel depuis plus d’un an. L’ingénieur général Patrick Bellouard explique pourquoi cette première grande infrastructure européenne va permettre d’assurer l’autonomie et la sécurité de l’Europe dans le domaine de la radionavigation par satellites.

Publications Media/Opinion pieces

« Le Parlement européen doit rester à Strasbourg, et non déménager à Bruxelles !»

Dans sa lettre de réponse à Macron, Annegret Kramp- Karrenbauer, la présidente de la CDU, demande de mettre fin à « l’anachronisme» du siège strasbourgeois du Parlement européen et d’installer celui-ci à Bruxelles. Cyrille Schott s’y oppose et pense que ce serait une perte immense pour l’Europe.