A On this occasion, the two parties reviewed the various issues of common parliamentary interest and the means of intensifying coordination in this area, in particular with regard to the European neighborhood policy and the common challenges linked to migration issues , climate change, renewable energy, human development, security, counter-terrorism and economic and trade cooperation.
On the geostrategic level, Rachid Talbi Alami and Roberta Metsola also evoked the Mediterranean dimension and the relations between the EU, Morocco and Africa.
The two officials also discussed the revitalization of the action of the Morocco-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, which aims to be a mechanism for permanent political dialogue, and the federation of the efforts of the two parliamentary institutions within the framework of the organization of the next forum. EU-Africa parliamentarian.
To face the challenges of the Mediterranean region, the two presidents, also members of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (PA-UfM), underlined the importance of giving more dynamism to the work of the ‘Assembly.
During this telephone conversation, Mr Talbi Alami told Ms Metsola that he would present, during his next visit to the European Parliament, the priorities of the Moroccan presidency of the PA-UfM, as well as the state of advancement of the development and implementation of the parliamentary twinning financing agreement between the House of Representatives and the EU.
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