A more integrated West-Mediterranean: as a possible implication of a weaker EU

Abstract

Abstract
The growing anti-EU sentiments in Southern Europe, juxtaposed with the increasing
importance of North Africa in the foreign policies of Spain and Italy under the influence
of the immigration and energy crises, attested to by Giorgia Meloni’s Mattei Plan and the
Morocco-Spain summit raises the prospects of more integration between the two banks
of the West-Mediterranean. But the countries constituting each bank are politically and
economically bound by agreements and treaties to other regional blocks and transnational
organizations besides their cultural, ideological, and structural incoherence. In this paper, I
dwell on the outlook of a more integrated West Mediterranean region, within the context

of a weaker EU which is more and more invested in the Mediterranean Sea, and the impli-
cations of this integration for the other regional commitments of some West-Mediterrane-
an states. In this endeavour, I draw on an interdisciplinary approach that maps into Critical

Discourse Analysis (CDA), Critical Layered Analysis (CLA), and political theory.