The strengthening of this strategic partnership was at the center of an interview on Wednesday between J. Borrell, European official, and Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs. “We discussed how to give new impetus to the EU-Morocco partnership, more important than ever in the current geopolitical context,” the head of European diplomacy said on his X account on Thursday.
N. Bourita and J. Borrell also discussed several bilateral and regional issues. Which refers to the EU neighborhood policy, Rabat and Brussels are linked by a strategic partnership.
Morocco and the EU, it will be recalled, launched on June 27, 2019 in Brussels the “Euro-Moroccan Partnership for Shared Prosperity”, a statutory framework which governs bilateral relations centered around four structuring areas. It is an area of convergence of values, an area of economic convergence and social cohesion, an area of shared knowledge and an area of political consultation and increased cooperation in security matters, and two fundamental axes of a horizontal nature , which will also be the subject of specific operational actions, namely cooperation on the environment and the fight against climate change and cooperation on mobility and migration, which will reinforce each other.
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