Morocco: EU-Morocco partnership struggles to bear fruit on social and labor rights

Initiating synergy between the Advanced Status and Euromed.  This first meeting between the Euro-Mediterranean (Euromed) Moroccan network of NGOs and the equal Parliamentary committee for the advanced status* - created in may 2010 to monitor progress made within the framework of this partnership –, organized at the Parliament in Rabat, is a step toward the creation of a community gain based on human and economic development.  Indeed, the network federates a number of associations, non profit-making non-governmental organizations and union organizations and aims to promote the role of civil society, including it more in the definition of euro-Mediterranean policies.  Yet, during the Grenada summit in March 2010, Euromed’s Moroccan members weren’t invited to join the event, neither by the Moroccan party, nor by the European party.  “Careful, recent events in Algeria and Tunisia undeniably prove that no solid economic development can be built without civil society” warned Euromed coordinator Hamid Lamrissi.
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in Rabat, is a step toward the creation of a community gain based on human and economic development. Indeed, the network federates a number of associations, non profit-making non-governmental organizations and union organizations and aims to promote the role of civil society, including it more in the definition of euro-Mediterranean policies. Yet, during the Grenada summit in March 2010, Euromed’s Moroccan members weren’t invited to join the event, neither by the Moroccan party, nor by the Eu

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