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    The Middle East and Northern Africa region has a special strategic importance for Europe, and not only for reasons of geographical proximity. Turkey, for example, is an EU accession candidate. Moreover, the European Union is the most important trading partner for all countries in the region, and the Arab states are the European Union‘s main energy suppliers. Furthermore, the region remains the focal point for some of the major challenges of world politics: the Middle East conflict, emigration towards the European Union, the development of peaceful and constructive relationships between Islamic countries and Western democracies. Most countries in the region do not enjoy democratic institutions and the rule of law. The degree of protection of individual and political freedoms is the lowest in the world (despite some differences between countries). And the same is true of economic freedoms and individual private property protection. In many countries, civil society is relatively undeveloped and finds it difficult to make itself heard. Freedom of association and freedom of assembly are subject to many restrictions, as is the freedom of the press. The work of our Foundation tackles these issues, supporting various initiatives for greater freedom, tolerance and democracy in the countries of the region. It was in 1962, with a training project for journalists in Tunisia, that the foreign activities of our Foundation began. Since then our work has expanded both in geographical and content scope. Today we are present in Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Tunisia. The regional office is based in Cairo.

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    The Middle East and Northern Africa region has a special strategic importance for Europe, and not only for reasons of geographical proximity. Turkey, for example, is an EU accession candidate. Moreover, the European Union is the most important trading partner for all countries in the region, and the Arab states are the European Union‘s main energy suppliers. Furthermore, the region remains the focal point for some of the major challenges of world politics: the Middle East conflict, emigration towards the European Union, the development of peaceful and constructive relationships between Islamic countries and Western democracies. Most countries in the region do not enjoy democratic institutions and the rule of law. The degree of protection of individual and political freedoms is the lowest in the world (despite some differences between countries). And the same is true of economic freedoms and individual private property protection. In many countries, civil society is relatively undeveloped and finds it difficult to make itself heard. Freedom of association and freedom of assembly are subject to many restrictions, as is the freedom of the press. The work of our Foundation tackles these issues, supporting various initiatives for greater freedom, tolerance and democracy in the countries of the region. It was in 1962, with a training project for journalists in Tunisia, that the foreign activities of our Foundation began. Since then our work has expanded both in geographical and content scope. Today we are present in Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Tunisia. The regional office is based in Cairo.

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    Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation For Freedom in Middle East and Northern Africa

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    The Middle East and Northern Africa region has a special strategic importance for Europe, and not only for reasons of geographical proximity. Turkey, for example, is an EU accession candidate. Moreover, the European Union is the most important trading partner for all countries in the region, and the Arab states are the European Union‘s main energy suppliers. Furthermore, the region remains the focal point for some of the major challenges of world politics: the Middle East conflict, emigration towards the European Union, the development of peaceful and constructive relationships between Islamic countries and Western democracies. Most countries in the region do not enjoy democratic institutions and the rule of law. The degree of protection of individual and political freedoms is the lowest in the world (despite some differences between countries). And the same is true of economic freedoms and individual private property protection. In many countries, civil society is relatively undeveloped and finds it difficult to make itself heard. Freedom of association and freedom of assembly are subject to many restrictions, as is the freedom of the press. The work of our Foundation tackles these issues, supporting various initiatives for greater freedom, tolerance and democracy in the countries of the region. It was in 1962, with a training project for journalists in Tunisia, that the foreign activities of our Foundation began. Since then our work has expanded both in geographical and content scope. Today we are present in Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Tunisia. The regional office is based in Cairo.

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    svitave FUR DIE FREIHEIT MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA Table of Contents At the Dawn of A New Era Daw Hace The changes sweeping the Arab world have transformed the politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for all times. ‘The initial revolutionary spark that ignited in Tunisia quickly spread to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Jemen - and soon to more or less all other parts of the Arab world, We are living in truly historie times and witnessing a process of epochal importance. ‘Transitions of such scale are never linear; therefore, set-backs are part of the equation, The outcome of what has been termed the “Arab Spring” is all but certain, In the best of all cases, the region will be transformed into a family of democratic states that respect the rights of all their citizens and live in peace with their neighbors. ‘The region boarding the Southern and Eastern rim of the Mediterranean Sea is highly heterogeneous; it is not possible to ump the countries stretching from Morocco in the West to Turkey in the East together into one category. Nonetheless, many issues and challenges confronting these nations are similar and have a regional, if not international dimension. The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF) aspires to tackle some of these issues with her programs on the country level and also the regional level. In all cases, our programs aim at promoting solutions which may forward freedom of the members of society. In this part of the world, many perceive liberal ideas as foreign and opposed to local cultural values and mores. It is one of the main challenges of our educative efforts to confront these false perceptions. For personal freedom, in our eyes, isa universal concept not related to a specific geographic or cultural origin. MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA 1

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