Coronavirus and the Maghreb: Challenges to stability and reform

Charles Powell (@CharlesTPowell), Director, Elcano Royal Institute, will moderate the event.

Panelists: Haizam Amirah-Fernández (@HaizamAmirah), Senior Analyst, Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid; Intissar Fakir (@IntissarFakir), Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of Sada, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC; Dalia Ghanem (@DaliaZinaGhanem), Resident Scholar, Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut; And Isabelle Werenfels (@iswerenfelsi), Senior Fellow in the Middle East and Africa Division, SWP, Berlin.

The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting the Maghreb countries hard. As the pandemic spread through southern Europe, the governments of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia took drastic measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus in their territories. These measures will have far-reaching consequences for the economies of these countries due to the increase in public spending to protect citizens, added to the drastic fall in income (hydrocarbons, trade, tourism, remittances, foreign investment, agriculture, transportation, maritime traffic, internal demand, etc.).

This virtual roundtable will analyze the responses of governments, the possible social consequences of the health crisis and the implications for political stability in the Maghreb of the socio-economic crisis caused by the Great Lockdown. All this in a context of growing demands for political reform and good governance

The event will be held in English without simultaneous translation.

Date: Thursday 7st May 2020, 12:00 to 13:00 h. 

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