MIGRASYL: [EU-Morocco]: Statewatch - Political agreement on Mobility Partnership: Towards the first readmission agreement with an African country?

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

[EU-Morocco]: Statewatch - Political agreement on Mobility Partnership: Towards the first readmission agreement with an African country?

On 1 March 2013, the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, and the EU's Commissioner on Home Affairs, Cecilia Malström, met with the Moroccan authorities in Rabat. In a press conference, Barroso and Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane announced a "new step in the relations" between the EU and Morocco, including a political agreement on the signature of a Mobility Partnership which, some suggest, may finally lead to the conclusion of a readmission agreement which the Moroccan authorities have so far refused to sign.