Author: CIPMO

The Middle East between Trump and Putin. What Role for Europe?

TURIN, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università degli Studi of Turin

While Putin’s Russia is expanding and beefing up its presence in the Middle East, thereby becoming Syria’s patron in alliance with Iran and Turkey, Trump has announced the complete withdrawal of US troops from the country, letting the victors divide the country in zones of influence.

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The Middle East. The cross-fate region

ROME, Zuccari Room, Palazzo Giustiniani at Senate of the Republic

The central-eastern Mediterranean has been home to several crisis hotspots that must be faced, managed and overcome. Natural resources – especially energy and water -, environmental issues, technological innovation, and the Blue Economy are veritable starting points for going beyond conflicts.

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Regional Cooperation and Development of Energy Resources in the Central-Eastern Mediterranean

ROME, Sala Capitolare of the Senate of the Republic, Chiostro del Convento di Santa Maria della Minerva

Not only are the abundant hydrocarbon reserves discovered off the coasts of Israel, Cyprus and Egypt a crucial component of the EU energy diversification strategy, but they also offer the opportunity of launching a stabilization and integration process on the regional scale, which was long cause of political tension among the riparian states.

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