Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 02/2011

Growing Jasmines: What should the EU do in Tunisia now?

Fabrizio Tassinari, Helle Malmvig, Ulla Holm

January 2011

Danish Institute for International Studies

Abstract

The EU misread the situation in Tunisia. However, the fact that the EU approach did not work as expected should not lead now to a hasty overhaul of the existing policy framework. But the EU will have to be clearer, smarter and stricter about how its policy instruments are implemented.