EU Commission Chief Visits Morocco to Strengthen Bilateral Partnership

According to the spokesman of the European executive, Éric Mamer, Ursula von der Leyen is thus making her first visit to Morocco as President of the European Commission. "It is part of the bilateral partnership between Morocco and the European Union, which the President naturally wishes to strengthen," he specified.

It should be noted that this trip is part of the "Euro-Moroccan Partnership for Shared Prosperity", launched on June 27, 2019 in Brussels between Morocco and the EU.

This is a new statutory framework governing bilateral relations around four structuring areas, namely a Space of Convergence of Values, a Space of Economic Convergence and Social Cohesion, a Space of Shared Knowledge and a Space of political consultation and enhanced cooperation in security matters.

This new line of cooperation is also based on two fundamental horizontal axes that 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 mutually reinforce each other.