Relations between Spain and post?Mubarak Egypt (2011?2015)

Abstract

This article presents a study of Spanish foreign policy towards Egypt after the fall of President

Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. Generally speaking, the Spanish diplomatic response to the

political transformations that began in Egypt at that time differed little from the European

diplomatic response. At first it was based on prudence and then at a later stage on pragmatism,

with occasional cases of improvisation in the face of the successive governments that followed

Mubarak’s overthrow and some reactions in the wake of various events. Since December 2014,

the focus of Spanish and European diplomacy has returned to security and financial matters, with

policies similar to those during the Mubarak presidency, an emphasis on supporting ‘strong’

leaders who guarantee stability in the area and less attention on civil society.