The Malian drama does not only pose difficulties for Europe and uncertainty about action on the ground (see this column in EUROPE yesterday), it also poses delicate questions about the EU's relations with Maghreb countries and about the presence of millions of Muslims in the EU - Muslims who are for the most part Arab.
In search of Maghrebi unity. The links between the two shores of the Mediterranean were initially planned on the rhetorical and fanciful basis of the Euro-Mediterranean Union...