Located just a two-hour flight or a short boat trip away from its southern shores, Libya is a country in Europe’s immediate neighbourhood. Political shifts and conflicts in this oil-rich Northern African nation have immediate and extensive consequences for European nations. As a result…
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Tags : Libya, Russia, European Union, EU,
The European Union – Morocco relationship tackles common challenges such as economic development, innovation, climate change, justice, security, mobility, migration and good governance. The partnership is legally based on the Association Agreement, which entered into force in 2000. With the launch of the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2004, which has been reviewed in 2015, Morocco gradually became a privileged partner of the EU in the field of political and economic cooperation as well as trade, technical and development cooperation.
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The European Commission last week appeared to have changed its policy on the disputed territory of Western Sahara – only to immediately perform a U-turn. The Western Sahara is a territory around the size of the UK, occupied by Morocco, and considered by the United Nations as a “non-self-governing territory”.
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