Proudly presenting the first Green Partnership under the EU Green Deal with Morocco during a visit to Rabat on 18 October, Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans was all smiles.
With it, the European Commission approved a €115 million programme to support the development of agricultural and forestry sectors in Morocco – or ‘Terre-Verte’.
The programme seeks to boost the ecological transition of these sectors in Morocco while creating “decent work opportunities”, according to the Commission’s statement.
“The support to Moroccan agriculture and forestry provided through this programme shows that the EU is on Morocco’s side in the fight against the climate and biodiversity crises,” Timmermans said at the back of the presentation of ‘Terre-Verte’.
But it seems almost no one other than the Commission was anywhere near as excited about it.
For most of Europe, news of the
multi-million euro programme seemed to slip under the radar, but there
was one notable exception: Spanish stakeholders were not best pleased with the news, and you don’t have to look too hard to figure out why. Ler mais
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