This week, the ash cloud slowly dissipated from the headlines. Other topics could reappear (happy news for the RAM and company ..): Moroccan cuisine was celebrated internationally. Eric Gerets is doubly appreciated - and that in the highest places. A Moroccan consul in France participated in the meeting of the MRE. And an economist painted his vision of the future Euro-Mediterranean.
"Last chance to taste the flavors of Moroccan" headlined the daily online yesterday diariodeavisos.com Santa Cruz de Tenerife an article on the days of Moroccan handicrafts and gastronomy on the archipelago. Until Sunday, April 25, the Moroccan leader Bensdira Khadija, who runs for over 30 years the kitchens of Hotel and Tourism School in Rabat Touarga, Iñaki González and his colleague, chef at the Hotel School, Santa Cruz, are working together to offer traditional Moroccan cuisine with the button Canary . Something unusual (abroad), the kitchen will be particularly served with Moroccan wines, the region of Meknes.
But not only interested in the Canary Moroccan culinary art this week. United States, the "Travel Channel" has devoted a special Moroccan cuisine in its flagship cooking show "Bizarre Foods "(Kitchen unusual). On the menu of the chef, Andrew Zimmern, pigeon pastilla and mechoui. "Moroccan cuisine is one of the most famous kitchens of North Africa and the Middle East and few cuisines can boast of such a status," explained leader. Nice compliment!
Bringing Morocco, but BIA this time, as was the mission of the consul of Morocco in the west French, travel to Nantes this week. Ahmed el Khdar came to the meeting of the Moroccan community in Nantes, to appear - it is Rennes position only recently - but also to "provide important information," as he told the newspaper Ouest France . First info: "Since 1 April, we do not issue biometric passports that individual. We must first have an electronic identity card. All these documents can be obtained at the consulate in Rennes. Leadtime is 15-20 days. "At short notice, the consul also informed the students scholarships for MRE: date for submitting applications: before April 25. Then he issued a call for nominations pointed "to create associations that will help single women or retirees destitute in their paperwork." A 'offshoring' work consulates to associations?
Grievances Moroccans Nantes: creation of an antenna consular Nantes, creation of a ferry from Saint-Nazaire in Morocco, an agency of the RAM in Nantes .. The consul will do "everything I can to assist them in carrying out those wishes."
Another meeting at the highest level, was announced this week Marocfootball.info. HM Mohamed VI had asked the (very likely) future coach of the Moroccan national soccer team, the Belgian Eric Gerets, a personal interview. This should allow Gerets appreciate all the respect that the expectations that are dedicated to the coach of the Atlas Lions in the Kingdom.
He could already ensure the support of one of his future players, and not less. Former and current Ebony Shoe Belgian champions Anderlecht with CSA, Mbark Boussoufa, indicated Friday newspaper Het Nieuwsblad: "Gerets would be perfect as Morocco's national coach. It is synonymous with discipline, motivation, good football and has an international reputation. "A" new era "begins in the Moroccan football, both in terms of players in the administration and could Gerets become a prominent figure. "I look forward to working with him." Pursued the midfielder. For a future of success in Morocco.
The future of Morocco and the Mediterranean region more generally was the subject of a column published in Les Echos this week by Jean-Louis Guigou, Delegate General of the Institute of Economic Forecasting for the Mediterranean World (IPEMED). This future would involve a "euroméditerrannéen protectionism," according to the author. Northern countries undergoing industrialization and growth decline, victims of social dumping emerging countries must open up further to the south Mediterranean. They must understand that "everything is lacking in European countries, young people, markets, energy, they are in the South and, conversely, what is lacking in the South and East, governance policy, patents, they are in the North. "
Offshoring in North Africa are, according Guigou, not a threat to countries like France, but their future. Moreover, Germany would be an example. Many German companies have seized the opportunity of enlargement of the EU to relocate in Eastern Europe - and the country will not fare worse, calls Mr. Guigou.
On the Mediterranean, the opening should however be under one condition. "The Union for the Mediterranean should not be a free trade zone as proposed by President Barroso and it must be a region of common public policies, social protection and high environmental and not a mere short-term opportunity to exploit the low wages or capture oil from the South. "
That makes it more complicated. Common public policies seem very far from reality in the Mediterranean area where the EU to accumulate the time that the bilateral agreements with each country, and where the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) is the best example of lack of regional cooperation south of the Mediterranean. And, secondly, the "protectionism euroméditerrannéen "would imply it as Morocco and the Maghreb countries should, in turn, is more close to their neighboring sub-Saharan Africa? It is an interesting future, but very focused on socio-economic needs of northern Mediterranean that painted Mr. Guigou.
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