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How seriously does the EU take governance reform in Morocco? The test case of justice sector reform
08/07/2010
Author : Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS)
By Anna Khakee
 
In analyses of European democracy promotion, it is often said that EU support for democratization and governance reforms abroad focuses on more ‘technical’ and ‘apolitical’ issues such as administrative reforms, improving budgetary processes, and reforms in the justice sector. This instead of tackling the ‘core’ democratization issues, such as electoral and constitutional reform, political party systems, and the functioning of national parliaments. In Morocco (as elsewhere in the wider  Mediterranean region), it is certainly true that the EU has focused most prominently on institutional support, amounting to 265 million for 2007-2010, plus another 228 million through the ENP Governance Facility in 2007, compared with 228 million for governance and human rights.

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