Publication

This occasional paper discusses the EU's policies towards Northern Africa and the Mediterranean Region. The author analyzes Europe's security interests in Northern Africa and states that the EU faces such regional challenges as poverty, underdevelopment, socio-economic unrest, narcotics trafficking, illegal migration, energy dependence, and also signs of international terrorism. The paper explains that the EU has struggled to develop a coherent strategy for dealing with such issues in Northern Africa and that the EU generally has not been able to thoroughly ascertain its interests as an external security actor in the region.