This visit seeks to buttress the strategic and multifaceted partnership between Rabat and Brussels.
The European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, will pay a working visit to Morocco on Monday, during which he will hold talks with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, on the evolution of bilateral relations and the prospects for their development; he will also meet with several other Moroccan officials.
The visit of the European official is part of the implementation of the Joint Political Declaration, adopted in June 2019, having established the “Euro-Moroccan Partnership of Shared Prosperity.” This Partnership is structured around four Spaces: political and security; Economic; values; knowledge, and two horizontal axes (Environment and migration).
Second of its kind in less than a year, the visit of Commissioner Varhelyi comes within the framework of regular contacts between the two parties, illustrated by the recent visit to Morocco of the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, in January
2023. This visit is in addition to the previous visits of six other members of the College of Commissioners for the year 2022 alone, including the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen.
This pace of visits by European officials reflects the sustained dynamism of the Morocco-EU relationship and the continued commitment of the Union to the development of a Partnership of equal and strategic nature with the Kingdom.
This visit reinforces the centrality of the multidimensional partnership that binds the two parties and confirms their common will to further strengthen it in several areas of structure in a context marked by many challenges.
The relations between the two partners have shown remarkable progress. Indeed, a number of achievements testify to this, particularly in the areas of the Green Partnership, the first of its kind concluded by the EU with a country in its southern neighborhood, the Digital Partnership, air, fisheries, research and trade.
It is also about the advanced operationalization of the Economic and Investment Plan of the New Agenda for the Mediterranean, financial cooperation, partnership for mobility, security and judicial cooperation, trilateral cooperation with African and Mediterranean countries or in the Union for the Mediterranean and the EU-African
Union partnership.
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