Morocco’s Accession to the African Union
Morocco’s accession to the African Union finds its deep motivation in two considerations linked by a dialectical relationship. One, mediate and unacknowledged, lies in the evolution of relations of this country with Europe. The other, immediate and more or less assumed, is related to the Western Sahara affair. Indeed, this approach implicitly bears the consequences of the failure of the attempt to merge with Europe pushed to the extreme in the form of a “project of anchoring to Europe” which, relying on the Geostrategic situation of Morocco in the Mediterranean basin, was even a time presented as summarizing alone the foreign policy of this country. But also, by renewing its “African roots”, Morocco hopes to find, through new alliances, the political means of strengthening its economic power on a continental scale, and, perhaps, the springs of a final settlement of the Western Sahara litigation.