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In two previous articles, we were able to examine the important advances in environmental protection in the Mediterranean, as well as the new priorities required to sustain our efforts to restore the good ecological status...

By Thierry Duchesne, FMES Maritime Department Director Abstract: As we saw in a previous article, the Western Mediterranean is doing better in many areas. The actions undertaken from the 1970s onwards have borne fruit even...

By Pascal Ausseur, Managing Director, FMES Institute Published by Le Grand Continent, May 18, 2025 : https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/05/18/leurope-a-decouvert-de-la-solitude-strategique-au-test-de-la-violence/ As it has expanded, the Union has also let down its guard. While it seems to have awakened...

By Aris Marghelis, associate researcher at the FMES Despite a lull in relations with Turkey, the fall of Damascus and the “Trump method” on international issues have thrust Greece into uncertainty. From a strategic perspective,...

Analysis of the Actions taken and how they influence the Future of Shippingand the Freedom of Navigation By Rear Admiral(ret) Michail D. Magkos, for the Security Science Journal Abstract : The Great Powers have reached...

Dr Pierre Razoux, academic director of the FMES Institute The current Air War over the Middle East (Israeli air campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, reciprocal strikes between Iran and Israel, American and Israeli raids...

Mediterranean reflections in view of the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) (Nice 9-13 June 2025) By Thierry Duchesne, Director of the Maritime Department of the FMES Institute The French Mediterranean coastline, long seen as...

By Pascal Ausseur, Director of the FMES Institute, for France Forum, published in ‘Faire face: L’Europe saisie par l’Histoire’ (Facing up: Europe caught up in history). The US downturn, a major trend Donald Trump’s re-election...

By Sossi Tatikyan Abstract : Azerbaijan’s information warfare against France has escalated into an explicit and systematic information warfare, at times escalating into hybrid war since 2023. It has various aspects – the France-Armenia partnership, the manipulation of anti-colonial...