Papaoutai: Where Are You, Europe?
Thirteen years after Papaoutai, Stromae’s song offers an unsettling metaphor for the relationship between Europe and its young people: a father who is present, yet absent.
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The Battle for the Sahel: Who Will Control Africa’s Strategic Corridors?
The rivalry between Morocco and Algeria now reaches beyond Western Sahara to the routes linking West Africa to the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The deeper contest is over who will organise the continent's economic interdependence, and who will keep the right to decide.
Morocco Has Just Broken a Glass Ceiling
For the first time in its history, Morocco has entrusted the leadership of its government to a woman: Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri. A ceiling falls: the ceiling of the possible.
The Border
Europe is recording fewer irregular crossings and, at the same time, is beginning to run short of people. The border reflects back an uncomfortable image. Over the past few decades, borders have become battlegrounds and points of tension — not…
The Geopolitics of Silence
Spain and Morocco are bound by geography, security and mutual interests. The strategic challenge is how to cooperate without allowing interdependence to become dependence.
The Answer I Couldn’t Give You, My Son
My son asked me what was happening as we walked past a gathering. I couldn't answer him then. This is the answer I owed him.
The New Geography of Power: China, Russia and the Arctic Route Reshaping Global Trade
China and Russia are developing the Northern Sea Route as a strategic alternative to Suez. How could the Arctic reshape global trade and geopolitical power?
From Hormuz to Gibraltar
The New Geopolitics of the Straits The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has brought the international system face to face with an old lesson that globalisation once appeared to have consigned to history: geography still matters. When a maritime…
Morocco, the Neighbour Spain Still Fails to See
Morocco has modernised, expanded its international influence and become a partner Spain increasingly needs. Yet part of Spanish public opinion continues to view the country through old prejudices, even as strategic reality makes its importance impossible to ignore. Two recent…
Europe’s Southern Frontier Is Shifting
The Gibraltar fence separating the Rock from La Línea de la Concepción before its removal under the EU–UK agreement.
