Middle East Monitor Morocco approves bill on Constitutional Court Wednesday, 25 June 2014 Moroccan King Mohammed VIThe Moroccan parliament approved unanimously yesterday a bill that changes the Constitutional Council into a...
Read MoreMagharebia Opposition leaders in the kingdom are calling on the governing majority to accelerate democratic reforms. By Naoufel Cherkaoui for Magharebia in Rabat [Naoufel Cherkaoui] Members of Morocco’s opposition meet...
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LeMatin.ma Abdelkader Fassi Fehri Académicien-chercheur, président de la Société de linguistique...
Read MoreReports coming out of Morocco and Jordan are both encouraging and frustrating. Both Morocco and Jordan have been beset for months by growing popular demands for political, economic and social reform, after Arab uprisings...
Read MoreLong before the woefully inaccurate term “Arab Spring” had been coined, the king of Morocco, his advisers and their Western enablers began touting the idea that the country would be an exception to the movement. Morocco, they...
Read MoreMorocco has been conspicuously absent from the list of Arab regimes threatened by popular protests during the last seven months. To be sure, there has been organized, sustained activity there, generated by a loose amalgamation...
Read MoreAs Arab rulers go, Mohammed VI, the 48-year-old king of Morocco, seems at times like the region’s most reluctant autocrat. When inheriting power from his repressive father 12 years ago, he refused to move to the royal palace,...
Read MoreMadrid – Spain highly appreciates reforms undertaken by HM King Mohammed VI, said spokesman of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) at the foreign affairs committee of Spain’s Senate, José Carracao....
Read MoreGlobal Arab Network – In spite of regional unrest and rising commodity prices that have led to an increase in the trade deficit for the year-to-date, the prospects for the Moroccan economy in 2011 are encouraging thanks to...
Read MoreRabat — The 2012 appropriation bill should support already launched reforms, Economy and Finance Minister Salaheddine Mezouar said. “Support for sector-based strategies, educational reform, health and rural areas should be...
Read MoreMorocco’s interior minister declared early legislative elections have been scheduled for Nov. 25. The kingdom’s official MAPnews agency on Tuesday reported Taieb Cherkaoui has announced the date. According to the AP,...
Read MoreRecent events in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia show both the necessity for change in Morocco and the risks. Dramatic change can come about suddenly, but even a change in the regime may not necessarily bring about stability and...
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