Luca Gori, Head, MENA Office, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Daniela Huber, Head, Mediterranean and Middle East Programme, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) Alessia Melcangi, Professor, La Sapienza University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council Chaired by Arturo Varvelli, Head, ECFR Rome and Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR Turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa directly affects Europeans, yet their influence in the region there has never been weaker. In the absence of a significant European role, other powers are determining the course of regiona...