Restaurants overlooking the Mediterranean.

MADRID The Mediterranean is undergoing a monumental political transformation.

Finally, the Mediterranean and the broader Middle East.

There are weekly reports of would be illegal Egyptian immigrants drowning in the Mediterranean.

The southern Mediterranean can be the source of this labor, given its huge youth bulge.

So it is time to think geopolitically, not just fiscally, about the Mediterranean.

The wars in Lebanon and Gaza constitute a grave threat to democratic reform in the southern Mediterranean.

The natural instinct to celebrate and support democratization across the Mediterranean has been tempered by concerns that the crisis will spill onto European shores.

The reason is that the future of Europe s security will be determined in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.

What the EU is facing in the Mediterranean isn t primarily a currency problem first and foremost, it is a strategic problem one that requires solutions urgently.

The African boat people in the Mediterranean are often not even sure whether they want to be in Italy, Germany, or Britain.

Boys in Western football shirts mainly Lionel Messi of Barcelona. Restaurants overlooking the Mediterranean.

With the EU s Mediterranean member states simultaneously faltering, great changes are afoot in Europe s southern neighborhood.

These countries mutual hatred and suspicion was no less bitter and deep seated than that afflicting the Eastern Mediterranean.

1. Reaffirms that security in the Mediterranean is closely linked to European security as well as to international peace and security

Even Spain and Italy, the two countries most affected by developments in the Mediterranean and the Sahel, have reduced their military expenditures significantly.

Aznar was not the only conservative to replace a socialist government in the Mediterranean world, and the recent defeat of the socialists in Greece is unlikely to be the last.

Less visibly, perhaps, the Mediterranean is also undergoing another revival, equally important in terms of geo economics.

Any threat to the canal s normal operations would shift the Far East Europe route to the southern tip of Africa, marginalizing the Mediterranean (and sending costs soaring).

Israel also joined NATO s naval control system in the Mediterranean, contributing to Operation Active Endeavor by joining NATO forces in patrolling the Mediterranean.

Miami based Norwegian Cruise operates 13 cruise ships in routes spanning North America, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, Central America and the Caribbean.

Protests against the TGV The first environmental protests against the building of an LGV occurred in May 1990 during the planning stages of the LGV Méditerranée.

It also changed the theater of operation, and forced the Alliance to shift its attention from Europe to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and beyond.

These facts illustrate better than anything the need for security partnerships that extend to Central Asia and across the Mediterranean.

Failure might also have security implications in the Balkans, the Black Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean all areas where the US and the EU have vital interests.

BERLIN For most Europeans, the Mediterranean is an annual object of longing the holiday idyll where they spend the best weeks of the year.

Although Japan did receive some appreciation for its dispatch of naval squadrons to the Mediterranean, it endured wide criticism for its refusal to send ground troops.

Turkey s neighborhood policy is devised to reintegrate Turkey into its immediate neighborhoods, including the Balkans, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Turkey s neighborhood policy is devised to reintegrate Turkey into its immediate neighborhoods, including the Balkans, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and the Eastern Mediterranean. We aim to deepen our political dialogue, increase our trade, and multiply our people to people contacts with our neighbors in the form of sports, tourism, and cultural actvities.

A Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean and the Middle East (CSCM) could quickly become a useful instrument for promoting this comprehensive approach to security and development.

If Europe and its companies are to remain competitive and attain the strategic objective of Europe 2020 a Europe that uses its resources efficiently the Mediterranean rail transport infrastructure is vital.

But now the European Union's security, in the south east Mediterranean, is in jeopardy to the fact that Turkey (a member of Nato) and Greece (a member of the EU and of Nato) are at daggers drawn.

The Mediterranean can be expected to remain the main security challenge for some time, owing both to illegal immigration and its proximity to terrorist training grounds.

The situation became so heated that some respected observers even proposed creating a northern euro for the region around Germany, and a southern euro in the Mediterranean (where France would fit was unclear).

Speaking to Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui, Rindt said his group's campaign is tied to the migrant crisis in Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as the rise in isolationism and nationalism on a global scale.

Prestige Cruises, also based in Miami, operates under the Oceania and Regent brands, which together have eight cruise ships traveling to Scandinavia, Russia, the Mediterranean, North America, Asia, Africa and South America.

But he also has other objectives to protect Assad s regime, to expand Russia s military presence and political influence in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, and perhaps even to push up the price of oil.

Al Qaeda s move to the Levant also threatens to spark a momentous confrontation between Sunni radicals some of whom have recently taken control of part of the Syrian Lebanese border and the Shia Hezbollah in Lebanon.

NATO s Mediterranean emphasis was inaugurated in 1994 through the Mediterranean Dialogue, which linked countries like Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, and Tunisia in security discussions with the Alliance.

The Mediterranean played a crucial role in the first Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, was the sea of the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, and was the center of the world first for the Arabs and Barbarians, and later for the Ottomans and the Spanish.

In other words, most ships from the Far East enter the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal and sail straight past Genoa, Marseille, Barcelona, and Valencia, adding three days to the trip to reach Rotterdam or Hamburg.

But even with one, two, or three steps forward, the German and French governments will be taking great political risks domestically if the euro crisis in the Mediterranean worsens and a financial bailout there becomes necessary to save the common currency. The populations in the countries that will have to foot the bill are unprepared for the reality check ahead of them, adding fuel to a years long growth in Euro skepticism, which now pervades all political camps.

But even with one, two, or three steps forward, the German and French governments will be taking great political risks domestically if the euro crisis in the Mediterranean worsens and a financial bailout there becomes necessary to save the common currency.

In early March, in the hopes of finding a safe place to start a family, Mohanad left his home near the Syrian city of Homs and, like hundreds of thousands before him, made his way via Turkey, the Mediterranean and the island of Lesvos to mainland Greece.

But it should now be clear to everyone that democratization in the southern Mediterranean cannot bypass Islamist movements, and that the success of that process largely depends on the degree to which their full participation in the political arena is ensured.