The EU’s Middle East Policy and Its Implications to the Region

In the last four years, one of the striking features of commentaries on the Middle East was the growing number of the references -both in the media and academic texts- to the European unio‎n (EU)’s incoherent policies in the Middle East. In many of these references, it has been argued that the EU has no clear cut policy towards Iraq or Iran and this is directly related to the different political preferences of its members. In the recent Iraq war, while some EU members, most notably Britain, joined the coalition forces led by the United States (US), other EU members such as Germany and France preferred not to involve in the war.