On the occasion of the EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2016, held in Brussels on 14-15 April, more than 150 experts and policy makers from 30 countries gathered to discuss the current security situation in the Mediterranean. The Annual Conference “Towards a Security Architecture for the Mediterranean”, held at a critical juncture of Euro-Mediterranean relations, aimed at contributing to the debate in the final stretch before the release of the EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy.

The debates constitute a valuable contribution to the mapping of the main threats in the Mediterranean region and offer interesting insights on how the security order in the region should be reviewed in order to address them. The position of the European Union as an actor in the region and the impact of domestic challenges on its external leverage are leading threads of the report.

The EuroMeSCo contribution, gathering the outstanding points of the Conference, has been published on the EU Global Strategy website