This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests.
Tasnim Abderrahim is a policy analyst focusing on migration, decentralization and local governance, and EU-North Africa relations. Abderrahim was a visiting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Prior to that, she worked with the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) in Maastricht, the Centre des Etudes Méditerranéennes et Internationales (CEMI) in Tunis, and the University of Gabes (in southern Tunisia).
She was also a research fellow and one of the coordinators of a German-Tunisian research project “Tunisia in Transition,” an interdisciplinary research group focusing on the transformation of the Arab World, Tunisian foreign policy, and European policy in Tunisia. Abderrahim co-edited Tunisia’s International Relations since the “Arab Spring”: Transition Inside and Out, a book on changes in Tunisia’s foreign policy and bilateral relations before and after 2011.
The "Mediterranean Worlds Forum”: France’s continued pursuit of leadership in the Mediterranean
On Feb. 7 and 8, France hosted the “Mediterranean Worlds Forum” in Marseille, following on the heels of the 2019 “Summit of the Two Shores, Mediterranean Forum.” These meetings have the stated goal of “giving new momentum” to relations in the western Mediterranean and illustrate Paris’s push to renew its leadership role in the region.
The thorny question of readmission in France-Maghreb migration talks
Readmission of irregular migrants has been a critical element in migration cooperation between France and Maghreb countries. In an attempt to increase its leverage, France recently decided to toughen its stance on migrant return by linking it more tightly to the country’s visa policy.
