After the physical famine is defeated in these countries, paralelly with die offs of significant portions of the population from deceases and mini-wars, they like Asia will start automatically to invest in education, creating for a generation the same kind of bussiness niche - poor but educated...
The system will have all the necesarry natural resourses in quantative terms and diversity on ITS own territory which is unprecedented situation in the world history.Also, the Mediterranean countries and the Gulf will be direct neighbours of the EU. US, Canada, Japan, China, Southern Asia, ...