The Middle East and the EU: New Realities, New Policies
Final Public Conference of the MENARA and MEDRESET Projects
Performed activity
Egmont Palace, Arenberg Room, Place du Petit Sablon 8 bis, Brussels
Egmont Institute in the framework of the MENARA and the MEDRESET Projects
MENARA and MEDRESET, both H2020 collaborative research projects, will unveil on March 6th its findings during a public conference entitled The Middle East and the EU: New Realities, New Policies at Egmont Palace. The event will include a key-note speech by the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the EU Commission Federica Mogherini, introduced by Ambassador Marc Otte.
This conference aims at fostering a debate among the Brussels-based expert and policy community on the present and the future of the Middle East and North Africa and in particular on the EU’s role towards this region. The agenda of the meeting will also include the presentation of the projects’s main results by MENARA’s scientific coordinator Eduard Soler, senior research fellow at CIDOB, MENARA’s policy coordinator Nathalie Tocci, director of IAI, and MEDRESET’s scientific coordinator Daniela Huber, senior researcher at IAI, among others experts from both consortia that will discuss where the Middle East is heading to.