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Tunisia's process of democratic transition has been stagnating since late 2012. The Tunisian people are still waiting for their new constitution. The situation has been exacerbated by the recent murder of opposition politician Chokri Belaid. Ute Schaeffer and Loay Mudhoon spoke to the renowned academic Amel Grami about Tunisia's political crisis
New jobs, discipline and national unity - according to Tunisia's new head of government, Ali Larayedh, this is what the country needs. But time is quickly running out. Ute Schaeffer reports from Tunis
The opposition movement that emerged from Benghazi has entirely changed the role and appearance of the opposition. The exile opposition, which once spoke for the Libyan people in the cities of the world and set the tone, has become insignificant overnight. An analysis by Hanspeter Mattes
EU Refugee Policy Is Morally Bankrupt The EU's interior ministers have discussed refugee policy following the catastrophe off Lampedusa - without any result. They've failed to use a good opportunity for a new, more humane policy, says Ute Schaeffer Politics and reality sometimes don't have much to do with each other - and that's the case with the refugee catastrophe off the coast of the Italian island Lampedusa. It is an intolerable contradiction: while the number of refugees drowning off the coast of Europe keeps increasing - with more than 270 victims' bodies being pulled from just one boat...