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The War in Ukraine and the Mediterranean Nexus. A GMF and Med-Or event

The 23rd edition of the Mediterranean Strategy Group, a transatlantic forum for discussions on Mediterranean affairs organized by the German Marshall Fund together with Med-Or Foundation and in collaboration with the Compagnia di San Paolo, the Policy Center for the New South and the Alexander Philon Fund for Transatlantic Partnership, has been held in Palermo from 15 to 18 May.

From 15 to 18 May a group of 40 experts and stakeholders from the Mediterranean region and the United States met in Palermo for the 23rd edition of the Mediterranean Strategy Group, the leading transatlantic dialogue on Mediterranean affairs organized by the German Marshall Fund with Med-Or Foundation together with the Compagnia di San Paolo, the Policy Center for the New South and the Alexander Philon Fund for Transatlantic Partnership.

The event entitled “The War in Ukraine and the Mediterranean Nexus” has been articulated into 6 different discussion panels in which senior representatives of Euro-Atlantic countries and experts from both sides of the Mediterranean – mainly from the institutional, diplomatic, military and academic worlds – participated in a highly interactive conversation on a broad spectrum of economic, foreign policy and security issues. The panels covered, in particular, the strategic implications of the war in Ukraine on Russia’s posture in the Southern flank, sanctions, the Mediterranean energy context, migration, NATO and EU strategy for the South and the Broader Mediterranean.

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