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Makale Özeti:
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MENA has always attracted great powers due to its central location, bearing crucial
waterways as well as housing divine places of three major religions (Islam,
Christianity and Judaism). MENA region possesses 54% of world oil and natural
gas resources. Natural gas is transferred from North African countries like Libya
and Algeria to Europe through pipelines and ships.
Plenty of countries have crucial national interests in MENA region (Roberto,
2012). Europe Union (EU) states have a tendency to lessen their dependence on
Russian gas by transferring the resources in the MENA region into Europe. In
addition, being old colonies of European states, MENA countries still depend on
European hi-tech and industrial products. Also, migration from African countries,
mainly through and from Libya, into Europe forced Italy and other European states
to take measures. In this respect, what happens in the region is of great concern in
EU countries.
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