In the past ten years, North African countries progressed in liberalizing their trade relations with the EU as well as Korea. As part of the Euro-Mediterranean (Barcelona Process) Partnership, North African nations and the EU entered association agreements with provisions for free trade in industrial goods. This opened doors for European manufacturers to new export and investment markets. Most recently, North African nations and the EU launched initiatives to extend their agreements to trade in agricultural products, trade in services, government procurement, and trade harmonization. Trade between North Africa and Korea also exploded in the past five years. As latecomers to North Africa, […]
Maltese armed forces have managed to usher a Turkish tanker hijacked by migrants who left Libyan coasts to the port of the city of Senglea. The Turkish merchant ship, the Elhibru 1, docked Thursday at Boiler Wharf in Senglea. Reports Wednesday said some migrants who left Libyan coasts seized the vessel. The hijackers picked up […]
Shortly after Palestine formed a unity government of which Israel is against, tensions quickly rose. Tel Aviv has decided to accept biddings for more than a thousand homes in the occupied territories much to the dismay of the Palestinians. Hanan Ashrawi of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has vowed that they will be taking the […]
