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A worker assembles vehicle parts on a production line inside the Renault factory on the outskirts of Tangier, Morocco, which has grown to become a giant in automobile manufacturing over the past 15 years, on April 29, 2024. AFP

Wheels come off: Morocco gets caught in the global trade storm

While Rabat may have escaped the worst of Donald Trump's tariffs, it has not been spared the impact of the European Union's increasingly fraught fight with China over the auto industry

Mohamed Sharki 16, Apr 2025

Diverging US-EU interests under Trump

Fares Garabet 27, Feb 2025
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune shakes hands with European Union Council President Charles Michel during their meeting, on September 5, 2022. Council of the European Union

Algeria makes the case for a better EU trade deal

With Algeria's hand strengthened by its relatively new status as Europe's leading gas supplier, economic experts say its poised to clinch a more favourable trade deal with its neighbour to the north

Rabia Abdul Salam 24, Jan 2025
Supporters of Georgia's opposition parties hold a rally to protest against the government's decision to suspend talks on joining the European Union, outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia December 7, 2024. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze

Four scenarios for the protests in Georgia

With clashes intensifying, Georgia appears to be in a pre-revolutionary state

Luke Coffey 12, Dec 2024
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on October 9, 2024. FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP

Two stirring speeches and one anti-fascist song tell a story of a divided Europe

How a fiery speech by far-right Hungarian PM Victor Orbán at the European Parliament, followed by an unusually stirring speech by Ursula von der Leyen, inspired a group of MPs to break out into song

Bryn Haworth 21, Oct 2024
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has just been re-elected for a second five-year term. Eduardo Ramon

Profile: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

A minister in Angela Merkel's German cabinet for 16 years, Europe's most powerful politician has just won a second five-year term. A tour of swing voters helped....

Bryn Haworth 18, Jul 2024

Major EU-Gulf trade boost revives talk of reducing barriers

With $175bn worth of annual business between the two blocs, a free trade deal seems only sensible, yet visas and vested commercial interests remain obstacles.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25, Apr 2024
A deal in Brussels to update the bloc’s 25-year-old Stability and Growth Pact on spending and borrowing rules could lead to new EU bonds and regulations. Yet it could also help the populist far-right. shutterstock

Rules reviewed: EU fiscal discipline agreed — but with ‘flexibility’

A deal in Brussels to update the bloc's 25-year-old Stability and Growth Pact on spending and borrowing rules could lead to new EU bonds and regulations. Yet it could also help the populist far-right.

Toufic Chanbour 21, Feb 2024
Politics were played down when Russia brought former Soviet states into a trading bloc to counter the EU. But suspicions over deeper motives were there from the start. Sanctions are a major test. Alex William

Putin’s war on Ukraine deepens doubts over the Eurasian Economic Union

Politics were played down when Russia brought former Soviet states into a trading bloc to counter the EU. But suspicions over deeper motives were there from the start. Sanctions are a major test.

Nazareth Seferian 05, Oct 2023
Protesters brandishing a European Union flag brace as they are sprayed by a water cannon during clashes with riot police near the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on March 7, 2023. AFP

Internal divisions in Georgia threaten its European dream

Georgia has never been so close to its historic drive to re-integrate into the West. It could gain EU membership, yet a government preoccupied with its own grip on power jeapordises this dream.

Vicken Cheterian 25, Jul 2023
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) watching as US President Donald Trump (C) shakes hands with Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Riyadh on May 14, 2025. Bandar AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace
Politics

Trump's lifting of Syria sanctions solidifies Iran's regional defeat

14 May 2025

It could very well boost Israel's security as well as that of everyone else in the region

James Jeffrey
US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman exchange a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) during a ceremony at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 13, 2025. REUTERS / Brian Snyder
Business & Economy

US, Saudi Arabia enter 'golden era' in defence, AI partnership

14 May 2025

A string of deals ranging from defence to technology were signed in Riyadh worth at least $300bn, including the "largest military sales contract in history"

Maher Chmaytelli
Rahaf Ayyad, a 12-year-old Palestinian who is suffering from malnutrition due to an Israeli-imposed starvation campaign, sits at a school-turned-shelter in al-Rimal in central Gaza City on May 4, 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Politics

Sunken faces: Kids in Gaza waste away as Israel blocks aid

15 May 2025

As experts warn of a looming famine due to Israel's blocking of all aid for over ten weeks, Al Majalla speaks to affected families on the ground whose children have become skin and bones

Salem Al Rayyes
Lina Jaradat
Profiles

Ahmed al-Sharaa: The Syrian president with much to prove

14 May 2025

Al-Sharaa met Trump today in Riyadh, after the US president lifted sanctions on Syria on Tuesday, offering it "a chance at greatness". But who is the Syrian leader thrust into the global spotlight?

Bilal Saab
American President Richard Nixon made an official visit to Damascus on June 15, 1974, and was welcomed by Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Getty
Documents & Memoirs

From Nixon to Clinton: Syrian-American summits since 1945

14 May 2025

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, will meet Donald Trump in Riyadh today, making him the first Syrian leader to meet with a US president since Clinton's meeting with Hafez al-Assad in 2000

Sami Moubayed

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