Africa Monitor Intelligence

Morocco: New EU Leadership Favors Rabat

Maintaining the role of Morocco as the main interlocutor and recipient of European Union (EU) financial support in the medium to long term is seen in Moroccan government circles as assured under the new EU leadership. Both Ursula von der Leyen (UVL), the new President of the European Commission, and France's Christine Lagarde (CL), who will chair the European Central Bank (ECB), are in favor of closer relations with Morocco. READ MORE