Bulletin n. 1/2009
July 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Jazra Bandarra Nelly
    L'Union pour la Méditerranée : le cas du Liban
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 526, mars ,  2009 ,  163-167
    The last development of the Israelo-Palestinian conflict have exacerbated divisions between the countries around the Mediterranean. One of the main difficulties facing the supporters of the Union pour le Mediterranée (UPM), including President Sarkozy at the Paris Meeeting of July 13, 2008, was already to bring all the countries together around the same table. After the high price paid by Palestinians, the relationship is even more tense. It is all the more necessary to increase the dialogue and solidarity around the Mediterranean. As a result, how to re-launch the UPM and what would be the role of a country such as Lebanon? Lebanon has interesting features in the Union, since it is located in the Middle East, and is one of the countries most open to the Western world. Due to its history, it has been a link between Europe and the Arab world. For the UPM, it could play a pivotal role between the various civilisations that it belongs to. The article goes over the main features of the evolution of the Lebanese economy and puts Lebanon back in the heart of the ground and maritime networks. It considers that in this geostrategic context, it should resume its place in the international context and in the black gold traffic between the Middle East and Europe. As part of the UPM, it would be important to set up an energy network that the various neighbouring countries would be connected to. Fossil energy would be complemented by other renewable energies such as the solar energy, well adapted to the region. What is important in the UPM is that for the first time, there is a co-organisation with an equal participation by the countries on both shores (joint chairmanship), treated as equal partners, with the implementation of joint management. Therefore more active participation by southern Mediterranean countries would be needed, where Lebanon could take interesting initiatives, which, with the financial crisis, could be fond all the more useful in the framework of regional cooperation.
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