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The ‘advanced status’ of partnership underwent its first overhaul at the EU–Morocco summit in Granada on 6 and 7 March. What position does the status currently find itself in? What does it mean for EU–Moroccan relations?

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The Iraqi parliamentary elections scheduled for 7 March signified a severe test of the truce that emerged between the major factions during 2007 and 2008; a test which the EU was woefully unprepared for.

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This analysis suggests that European policies in situations of conflict or fragility remain ineffectual, often unduly narrow in scope and at odds with the EU’s declared holism.

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The Obama administration’s dithering on the Middle East suggests that it is up to the EU to live up to the rhetoric and forge a strategy in the Gulf that places it in a credible role as interlocutor for both the US and the GCC.

This report evaluates the way in which the Strategy for Central Asia forms part of the EU’s worldview, and suggests some courses of action for Europe in light of its new foreign policy responsibilities.

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Important trends now render the divide between Europe's Mediterranean and Gulf policies increasingly incongruous. The EU should work towards a single broader Middle East policy.