IngentaConnect Morocco: Economy, Politics and Government

Abstract:

Reforms under the new King, Mohammed VI, continued to bring about greater freedom and relaxation in 2000, while the press, now relatively free, exposed the excesses of Hassan II's police state. There was some slow progress towards improvement of relations with Algeria (though the border was still closed in early 2001), but virtually none towards a solution of the Western Sahara dispute, on which the government's basic position remains unchanged. King Mohammed and the Socialist Prime Minister Abderrahmane El Youssoufi were more concerned with the country's overriding economic problems, especially unemployment, but attempts at improving justice have only had limited effect. The economic liberalisation policies of the previous two decades have continued, reinforced under the terms of the European Union (EU) Association Agreement which formally came into effect in March 2000.

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