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La France veut s'allier avec le Maroc pour se déployer en Afrique, "priorité stratégique" !
La France partage (avec le Maroc) l'ambition de "se déployer en Afrique". Et ce, alors que la France et l’Europe réfléchissent "à leur autonomie stratégique" et "repensent à relocaliser
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France wants to ally with Morocco to deploy in Africa, "strategic priority"!
France shares (with Morocco) the ambition to "deploy in Africa". And this, while France and Europe reflect "on their strategic autonomy" and "reconsider relocating part of their value chains, particularly from Asia, to Mediterranean countries.
Posted 11/23/2021 at 4:43 p.m. Updated 11/23/2021 at 7:37 p.m.
France is showing its ambitions in Africa, a continent with which it has historic links. France has "the ambition" to strengthen its economic presence there in partnership with Morocco, French Minister for Foreign Trade Franck Riester told Rabat, citing a "strategic priority". "There is the question of our shared ambition (with Morocco) to deploy in Africa," said Riester after a 48-hour visit to the Shereefian kingdom.
An ambition considered as a "priority" at a time when "France and Europe are reflecting on their strategic autonomy" and "are rethinking about relocating part of their value chains, particularly from Asia", including to neighboring countries Mediterranean. "This concomitance and this convergence of our strategies suggests possible partnerships for the future" with Morocco, underlined the French minister. He notably mentioned decarbonisation, innovation, renewable energies and new technologies, transport and agro-food.
Rabat has stepped up diplomatic actions in recent years to strengthen its economic presence in Africa but its exchanges with African countries are still weak, according to an official report published in 2020. During his trip, Mr. Riester met the Minister Moroccan Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah Alaoui, as well as members of Moroccan employers and the French business community.
Nearly a thousand French companies are established in Morocco, totaling more than 10 billion euros in investments. In addition, the Moroccan bosses called on the French minister on the decision of Paris to tighten the conditions for obtaining visas with regard to nationals of the kingdom. A measure denounced as "unjustified" by Rabat.
At the end of September, France decided to reduce the number of visas granted to nationals of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia due to the "refusal" of these Maghreb countries to issue the consular passes necessary for the return of immigrants returned from France. France. "We must arrive as quickly as possible to have a possible return, as was the case before the Covid, of Moroccan nationals in an irregular situation from France to Morocco", pleaded Mr. Riester. "We have really made this concern known to the Moroccan authorities. We must have results as quickly as possible to get out of this situation on top," he said.
