Europe · Africa · The Strait
Understanding the world from its borders.
Signed analysis of what connects Europe and Africa, read from both shores of the Strait of Gibraltar.
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Six ways of reading what crosses
The Strait
Spain and Morocco: a neighbourhood that cannot afford a rupture.
Strategic Corridors
Ports, pipelines, cables and routes: who organises the connections.
Energy, Water & Minerals
What crosses, and who depends on whom.
Mobility & Borders
Migration, demography and work, with data.
Europe–Africa
The institutions that manage interdependence.
Bridge Cities
Tangier, Palma and the diplomacy that happens below the level of states.
Who writes
Abderrahim Ouadrassi
Abderrahim Ouadrassi writes about the Strait of Gibraltar and relations between Europe and Africa. He is President of the EuroAfrica Foundation and a columnist for the Spanish daily Última Hora. Born in Tangier, he lives in Mallorca.
Europe's future is also being written in Africa.
Method
Four questions
- What crosses?
- Who governs it?
- What happens if it stops?
- How does it look from the other shore?
Each piece separates what has been announced from what has been built, cites its sources and sets out the other side's position.
