European Union : Managing Migration Means Potential EU Complicity In Neighboring State’s Abuse Of Migrants and Refugees

Human Right Watch denounces European Union’strategy on immigration policy which consist to take away migrants et refugees outside european territories read

date of on-line publication : 1 August 2007

EuroMeSCo

The adaptation of EU and US democracy promotion programmes to the local political context in Jordan and Palestine

> Dorothée Schmid and Fares Braisat, EuroMeSCo Research Report n° 50, october 2006, 26 p.

The purpose of this report is to compare the priorities and methods of American and European administrations for the promotion of democratic values and institutions in the Middle East, taking Jordan and the Palestinian territories as case-studies. This paper try to evaluate the consistency of the Western powers’ democracy-promotion policies, especially pondering the influence of regional strategic parameters on the implementation of co-operation programmes on a local scale. Democracy has (...) read

date of on-line publication : 9 February 2007

SCHMID Dorothée

European community aid policy and pratice on governance and democracy in Morocco

> Morocco Governance Research Report, One World Action, february 2006, 71 p. (pdf)

Morocco is widely considered as the leading avant-garde for democratic transition in the Mediterranean region. Indeed a wind of liberty has been blowing in the country since the beginning of the post-Hassan II era in 1999. Important reforms have recently been undertaken - some with a high symbolical value, such as the updating of the family code (Mudawana) in an appeased political context. Pluralist elections were held and freedom of speech has substantially improved. At present, the (...) read

date of on-line publication : 7 February 2007