EUROPEAN UNION DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN THE SOUTH OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: CASE OF MOROCCO

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Abstract

LPrior to the political waves that hit North Africa, for many decades, Morocco has been facing numbers of external pressures over the questions of peace and political transition, human rights, and transparency. Additionally, the historical linkages and relationships of the kingdom of Morocco with the western world including United States of America serve an outstanding remark towards transforming the country into her current political dynamism. It is a big task, and of course, could not be that easy for country such as Morocco to abruptly surrender the oldest package of an absolute hereditary system of sultanate to embrace a new system other than the original version of her own in an overnight manner. Instead of total recast of the ruling style in the country, an abnormal circumstance might impose some oddity changes time to time, but perhaps not at once. The relationships and bulky foreign aids that Morocco normally receives from international donors, such as the European Union and other individual states once have gone down due to many reasons including human rights abuses, forced disappearances, tortures, illegal operation in Western Saharan territorial bondage, etc. Keywords: Democracy a Natural Being of EU, EU and Democracy promotion in the Maghreb sub-region, EU-Morocco: Partnership and Neighbourhood, EU-Morocco ‘Action Plan’, The ‘Advanced Status’ in promoting Moroccan Democratization.

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Ghazali Bello Abubakar (September 2014). EUROPEAN UNION DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN THE SOUTH OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: CASE OF MOROCCO. Journal of Education, Arts and Humanities, Vol. 2, No. 3 — October 2014, pp. 42-49.