It seems reasonable for the EU to deepen its relationship with Mauritania, which represents a point of certain stability in the region, especially in the areas of migration and natural resources.

This is no longer just a story of young people leaving and aging societies with significant internal migrations reshaping the spatial structure of the countries. It is the story of a region that has leveraged the EU integration context to ascend economically, but is demographically on the brink of erosion. Because where there is a vacuum, capital, influence, infrastructure—and often geopolitics—flow in.