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Abba, Nassim (2015)

Human Rights Promotion through the European Neighbourhood Policy: The Case of Morocco

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

Morocco and the European Union (EU) have a longstanding relationship. Since its independence, Morocco has signed several treaties and agreements with the EU. When the European neighbourhood policy (ENP) came into force in 2004, the Kingdom gradually became a privileged partner of the EU in various fields. Within the policy, Morocco is nowadays known to be the largest recipient of European Union funds. Thereby, the ENP is often portrayed as an EU tool of democracy and human rights promotion. Yet, major events during the last couple of years in the EU’s neighborhood -the Arab spring and Ukraine crisis- have made the European Union to re-evaluate the policy. Herein, Morocco, a country often displayed by the EU as a successful example of ENP, proves to be an interesting case. The aim of this thesis is to analyse how the EU, through the ENP, has contributed to the development of Morocco’s human rights situation since 2004-present-on.

Human rights

Neighbourhood policy

Democratization

EU

Morocco

ENP

Author

Abba, Nassim

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en