Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Boutayeb Chahira
    Les nouveaux axes de la politique européenne de voisinage face au printemps arabe - Conditionnalité et différenciation
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 557, avril ,  2012 ,  270-280
    The democratic and political process underway in the Mediterranean since early 2011 cannot go unnoticed by the Union as such sudden regime changes result in significant consequences for Europe, due to the immediate geostrategic situation of the countries in transition. The relationship between the Union and the Mediterranean states has deeply changed in the past years, both in terms of objectives and action methods. Its main leverage means were two tools: the Barcelona process and the Union for the Mediterranean, this second tool being more in the framework of a regional integration perspectives that refers to another previous and more extensive took, the European neighbourhood policy, set up in 2003-2004 to redefine and supervise the relationships between the Union and adjacent countries. In the aftermath of the Arab revolutions, the ENP now has to find a booster, and be revised in its approach to the many transitions that Arab countries are going through. Thus the Arab spring splits the history of the Euro-mediterranean relationship in two phases, the phase of paradox (I), a period that elapsed and prevailed until the Arab awakening, and that featured a multiple-form partnership, mainly of a business nature, and secondly, in a new era since the Mediterranean awakening, the phase of rupture (II), which sets two main requirements as principles, conditionality and differentiation, which principles are yet familar with Union law. Now, they will have a more central place in the definition and implementation of the partnership towards the Mediterranean shore.
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