Global and Regional Trends

The African Continental Free Trade Area: A New Blueprint for the North Africa Regional Integration

Ghazi Ben Ahmed
Mediterranean Development Initiative

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) comes at a time of great instability in the North African region, compounded by a pandemic with severe economic and social impacts.

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New Transport Challenges in the Western Mediterranean in the Wake of Covid-19: Policies, Uncertainties and Tools

Alberto Palacios & Jordi Selfa
CETMO

In 2020, transport in the western Mediterranean was undeniably impacted by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The Effects of Covid-19 on Trade Integration in the Western Mediterranean

Jordi Selfa Clemente
CETMO

This article aims to reveal the significance of the year 2020 in quantitative terms and, consequently, the impact of the health crisis on trade flows between the two shores of the GTMO 5+5.

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Mediterranean Logistics post COVID-19: Opportunities come with challenges

Anwar Zibaoui
General Coordinator of ASCAME

The coronavirus outbreak is redefining how we stay connected. And with a fifth of the planet already isolated, it is imperative to keep the flow of goods so that critical supplies can get where they are needed.

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The Health Crisis Re-Shuffles the Cards of Geopolitics in the Maritime Sector in the Western Mediterranean

Oumnia Boutaleb
Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

The current health crisis has redefined world geopolitics. The large transport networks must readapt and adjust to the geopolitical evolutions and the new world dynamics.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic: What Impacts on the World Economy and the International Supply Chains?

Dr Jérôme Verny
NEOMA Business School, Paris, France

At a global scale, the COVID-19 pandemic has created disruptions to all logistical chains. Digitalisation is key to better risk management for more resilient supply chains.

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The Sustainability of Transport and Logistics in the Mediterranean

Eduard Rodés
Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport

Sustainability has become one of the critical factors in shaping the policies of all countries and the COVID-19 has further strengthened the need to carry out this sustainability revolution.

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COVID-19 and the Scramble for Trans-Mediterranean Commercial Transportation

Michaël Tanchum
AIES, Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy

COVID-19 has reshuffled the deck in the strategic struggle to establish trade transport corridors from Europe to Africa via the Mediterranean basin, where the EU must formulate a coherent and effective policy to take advantage of its location.

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The impact of the new global regionalism on production, transport and logistics systems

Marco Ricceri
Eurispes

The G20-2020 summit confirmed collaboration between states as the only way forward to tackle the effects of the global pandemic crisis, “to overcome the current challenges and realize opportunities of the 21st century”.

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Mediterranean Sea and the Covid pandemic: A turning point for globalisation?

Giorgia Giovannetti and Arianna Vivoli
University of Florence, Italy

Some debates have emerged about the responsability of globalisation on transmitting the COVID-19 shock to global value chains and about de-globalization or slow-balization processes.

Global and Regional Trends

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