The European Union is interested to work jointly with the North African and GCC countries to establish large sacle green energy projects similar to the MSDAR project in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The DESERTEC project is  a large scale project initiated by the EU with the Middle-East and North-Africa (MENA) countries in order to grasp green energy to EU countries. Satellite-based studies by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have shown that, using less than 0.3% of the entire desert areas of the MENA region, solar thermal power plants can generate enough electricity and desalinated seawater to supply current demands in EU-MENA, and anticipated increases in those demands in the future.  Harnessing the winds in Morocco and on land around the Red Sea would generate additional supplies of electricity. Solar and wind power can be distributed in MENA and transmitted via High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC)  transmission lines to Europe with transmission losses that would be no more than 10-15%. The DESERTEC concept consist of bringing technology and deserts into service for energy, water and climate security. Countries like Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia have already shown an interest in this kind of cooperation.