The “harassment and multiple media attacks” that target the Morocco-EU partnership “come from people and structures disturbed by this Morocco which is liberating itself, this Morocco which is strengthening its protagonism, this Morocco which is projecting itself without complex into its African geopolitical environment. and Arab,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, on Thursday in Rabat.
These attacks within the European institutions are oriented and are the result of calculations and a desire to harm the Morocco-EU partnership, insisted Bourita during a joint press briefing after his talks with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.
The Morocco-EU partnership faces continuous legal harassment and repeated media attacks, the minister stressed, noting that the partnership between Rabat and Brussels must be immunized and protected.
Morocco will defend this partnership, and is counting on its partners to defend it, he said, adding that it is a partnership of shared values, and it is within this framework that the Kingdom will continue to work. with the European Union.
Borrell is on an official visit to the Kingdom aimed at strengthening the historic EU-Morocco partnership, which has continued to develop in recent years, becoming a benchmark in the EU’s neighborhood policy.