EU-Arab summit comes at tumultuous time

POLITICAL and business leaders are making final preparations for the 2017 EU-Arab Summit in Athens on Thursday and Friday. The agenda, focused around the key theme of "Toward a Solid Alliance", is centred on opportunities for economic and political cooperation and partnership after a period of tremendous tumult in both geographies.

While most attention has focused on the so-called Arab Spring, Europe has also gone through significant political and economic in…