Annual Report 2025

Looking back at 2025, it is clear that this was a year of deep significance for the Union for the Mediterranean, and indeed for the wider Euro-Mediterranean region. It was a year in which we were confronted, with renewed force, by the fragility of the geopolitical environment we inhabit, and yet it was also a year in which our 43 Member States chose, deliberately and collectively, to invest in the future of regional cooperation. The backdrop could not have been more testing. The war in Gaza, with its catastrophic human toll and far-reaching consequences for regional politics, alongside the profound uncertainties reshaping the wider Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine, weighed heavily on the entire region, deepening suffering, undermining the international rules-based order, and casting a long shadow over the trust upon which multilateral cooperation depends. Taken together, these overlapping crises served as sobering reminders that the Mediterranean is not a space of abstraction, but a shared reality whose instability carries direct consequences for the lives of hundreds of millions of people on all its shores.

May 2026