ABSTRACT
This chapter follows up on the previous one by discussing the paybacks obtained by Morocco thanks to its exemplary pro-European foreign policy activism in two moments of truth, namely 2008 and 2011. In 2008 there were two significant novelties in Morocco’s relations with the EU affecting respectively their multilateral and bilateral dimensions. In July, the new Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) became operational as a multilateral framework for relations between the EU and its southern Mediterranean partners to replace the EMP. In October an ambitious Joint Document was adopted that set the ‘roadmap’ for future bilateral relations between the EU and Morocco, which is known as the Advanced Status. According to Moroccan foreign ministry officials, both processes were ‘in perfect symbiosis’; they ‘converged, complemented and reinforced each other’ (MAEC, 30 June 2009, 4 December 2009; GERM, 2010: 25–28).
