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Taking into account the intricate relationship between economic integration and foreign policy affairs, this chapter aims to analyze the interplay among the different frameworks that coexist in this context through the particular case of Morocco. It deals with the state of regional integration in the Mediterranean with a focus on its links with the colonial legacy, independence processes and the inception of the European Economic Community (EEC). The construction of the Common Market ran parallel to a process that could be described as ‘economic disintegration’ between European countries and their former colonial settlements. Coinciding with the first EEC enlargement, Morocco undertook in 1973, when the EEC expanded to nine Member States, both the Moroccanization of many economic activities and the negotiation of a new agreement with Europe to overcome the limits of the 1969 arrangement. The terms of the commercial, financial and technical cooperation enacted by the agreement denoted the biased nature of Morocco–EEC cooperation. |
