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Rich world economic malaise to endure into 2012: Reuters poll

Yacout Info | 2011-10-14 | News

Stagnation is probably the best many of the world’s biggest developed economies can hope for over the next year, with several facing a significant chance of recession, Reuters polls of around 350 economists showed on Thursday. After a promising start, 2011 has turned into an enormous...

2012, Canada, China, Economic malaise, EU, Japan, Reuters Poll, Rich world, US

EU: Resistance against free trade agreement with Morocco

Yacout Info | 2011-10-12 | News

Lobbyists from Southern Europe resist a free trade agreement for the free trade in agricultural products of the European Union with Morocco. This agreement was accepted by the Moroccan Parliament in December 2010 and has been waiting for ratification by the European Union since then and is blocked...

agriculture, EU, free trade agreement, Morocco, Southern Europe, Spain

Morocco-EU Fisheries Agrement: EU parliament foils maneauver by adversaries of the Kingdom- Ambassador

Yacout Info | 2011-10-01 | News

Morocco's Ambassador to the EU, Menouar Alem welcomed, on Friday in Brussels, the rejection of the EU Parliament by an overwhelming majority of a draft resolution recommending the EU Court of Justice to challenge the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement. "The European Parliament foiled by...

EU, EU Parliament, Fisheries Agreement, Menouar Alem, Morocco

EU adopts a new support program for 350 million euros for North Africa and the Middle East

Yacout Info | 2011-09-27 | News

The European Commission adopted y a new program of support for North Africa and the Middle East for a total of 350 million euros for 2011-2012 on Tuesday. As part of the European Neighbourhood Policy, the program entitled "Spring" is structured around four new decisions to support...

Arab Spring, Catherine Ashton, EU, Mena, Stefan Fule

EU, US crises threaten world

Yacout Info | 2011-09-23 | News

Heads of the World Bank and IMF on Thursday warned that Europe and the US needed to get control of their deteriorating economic crises or risk “suffocating” the global economy Opening the annual meetings of the two key global lenders, they also warned poorer countries to get their houses in...

Christine Lagarde, Crisis, EU, IMF, Robert Zoellick, threat, US, World Bank

EU grants Morocco MAD 1.5bn for 2011 annual action programme

Yacout Info | 2011-08-11 | News

The European Union has approved the 2011 annual action programme for Morocco with a total amount of one billion and 572 million dirhams as part of the Kingdom's democratic and socio-economic reforms. In a statement, the Union said the programme is to finance activities in the field of...

Annual Action programme, EU, Morocco

Statement by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde

Yacout Info | 2011-08-08 | News

Managing Director Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) made the following statement today: “I welcome the statements from the European Central Bank, from the leaders of Germany and France as well as from the G7, and their renewed commitment to take all necessary action...

Christine Lagarde, ECB, EU, G7, IMF, US

EU and Morocco to sign new protocol for fisheries agreement

Yacout Info | 2011-07-12 | News

A new protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial compensation provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) is to be signed by the EU and Morocco tomorrow, 13 July, a press release from the Council of the European Union said today The protocol defines the...

EU, Fishing agreement, FPA, Morocco, protocol

Consensus to renew fisheries agreement with Morocco

Yacout Info | 2011-06-30 | Economy

The 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) approved the proposal from the European Commission (EC) to extend until February next year the fishing agreement with Morocco. The decision had been postponed because some countries had concerns about the impact on the Western Sahara and human...

EU, Moroccan Fisheries, Oliver Drewes

Morocco, Germany eager to strengthen their cooperation in promising sectors, FM says

Yacout Info | 2011-05-17 | News

Morocco and Germany are sharing the willingness of developing their political dialogue, strengthening and diversifying their cooperation in promising sectors, notably clean energy, modern agriculture, services, tourism and intercultural dialogue , said the Moroccan Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri...

EU, Germany, Kronenberg Morocco talks, Morocco, Taieb Fassi Fihri

Morocco earmarked $ 2.8 bln to agricultural sector in 2010, Minister says

Yacout Info | 2011-04-26 | News

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Aziz Akhannouch, said on Tuesday in Meknes, that 2010 was marked by the launch of several projects in the agricultural sector, worth nearly 22 billion dirhams (some $ 2.8 bln). Speaking at the opening of the 4th symposium on Agriculture,...

Aziz Akhannouch, EU, Green Paln, Meknes, Symposium on Agriculture

Symposium in Marrakech on the Moroccan judicial system and international standards relating to human rights

Yacout Info | 2011-04-22 | News

The Moroccan judicial system and the issue of adaptation to international standards in human rights" was the theme of the 3rd Regional Symposium, held on Thursday in Marrakech, at the initiative of the Movement for Alternative Citizenship. Organised in partnership with the Regional Association of...

EU, human rights, Marrakech, Moroccan judicial sytem, Regional Associationof Young L

Africa, Morocco sharing experience in agriculture

Yacout Info | 2011-04-19 | News

Morocco is willing to share its experience in agriculture with the African countries, notably those of western Africa, which face up to the challenges of food security and modernization of production tools, said on Monday in Dakar Morocco's Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi, who represents HM King...

Abbas El Fassi, Agriculture, Dakar, EU, World Bank

Morocco-EU: 19 new partnership projects financed in 2010 worth $ 9 mln, EU official says

Yacout Info | 2011-04-14 | News

Nineteen new partnership projects between the European Union (UE) and civil society organizations in Morocco were financed in 2010 for a total cost of 73 million dirhams ($ 9 mln), the head of the EU's delegation in Rabat, ambassador Eneko Landaburu said. These projects...

Eneko Landaburu, EU, Morocco

Morocco hopes to set up 'independent, impartial, effective' legal system: European official says

Yacout Info | 2011-04-01 | News

Morocco hopes to set up "independent, impartial, effective" legal system, said Wednesday in Rabat Director General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs at the Council of Europe Philippe Boillat, on a visit to Morocco Boillat told a press conference that his talks with...

EU, General Human Rights and legal, Philippe Boillat

Analysis: EU sets sights on deeper North Africa trade

Yacout Info | 2011-03-11 | News

In the long term, the EU wants to conclude bilateral trade agreements that include clauses encouraging EU investment in the region and hopes to root out state enterprises which it says hinder competitiveness in several states. BUMPS IN THE ROAD The proposals face some resistance. EU states...

EU, NorthAfrica Trade

The U.S. and its partners evacuate nationals fleeing the violence in Libya

Yacout Info | 2011-03-07 | News

The United States is redoubling efforts to help people displaced by the violence in weeks in Libya to return to their countries of origin. March 3, Obama said that U.S. planes will repatriate Egyptian nationals who fled Libya to Tunisia. "I have authorized the U.S. Agency for International...

EU, evacuation, Liibya, nationals, US

Fisheries agreement with Morocco extended by 12 months

Yacout Info | 2011-02-28 | News

Authorities from the European Union (EU) and Morocco have signed a one year extension of the current fisheries agreement in Rabat, which will grant 119 licenses to the EU fleet in return for annual compensation of EUR 36.1 million. According to the Ministry of Marine Fisheries of Morocco, "the...

Cepesca, EU, fisherioes agreement, Halieutis Plan, Morocco, Rabat

$ 220 million EU contribution to projects in Morocco during 2010

Yacout Info | 2011-02-27 | News

The EU's contribution to the large-scale projects in Morocco, that have benefited the Moroccan citizens, amounted to 1.8 billion dirhams ($ 220 million) in 2010, said Thursday in Casablanca head of the EU's delegation in Rabat, Ambassador Eneko Landaburu. Landaburu said that this support has...

Eneko Landaburu, EU, Morocco

Economic reforms lead Morocco to Advanced Status in relations with EU

Yacout Info | 2011-02-15 | News

Thanks to its multiple reforms, Morocco obtained an "Advanced Status" in its relations with the EU, Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said. Thanks to its multiple reforms, Morocco obtained an "Advanced Status" in its relations with the EU, Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said. Morocco...

EU, Morocco, Taieb Fassi Fihri

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