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just like the Ukrainian war is a pan-European challenge and not just limited to the Eastern member states, the same can be said of the bloc's dealings with our southern neighbourhood (Photo: Wikimedia)

Towards a new EU relationship with northern Africa

Migration, terrorism and energy — three 'crisis' topics — have preoccupied EU policy and their societies' view of their neighbourhood in northern Africa for a long time.

Caught in (post-)colonial attitudes, misled by a deplorable lack of knowledge of internal developments, and frightened by new geopolitical competitors: Europe's relations with northern Africa is a good — or rather, bad — example of how biased and outdated perceptions worsen crises rather than overcoming them and laying...

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just like the Ukrainian war is a pan-European challenge and not just limited to the Eastern member states, the same can be said of the bloc's dealings with our southern neighbourhood (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Peter Hefele is policy director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the official think-tank of the centre-right European People's Party.

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