Moroccan - Tunisian trade should be included in Maghreban market
Morocco-Tunisia, Economics, 7/27/1998

"Morocco and Tunisia should tackle the issue of their bilateral trade in the frame of a Maghreban market," said Chairman of the Moroccan association of entrepreneurs "CGEM," Abderrahim Lahjouji.

Lahjouji, who took part in the meeting of the Moroccan-Tunisian joint commission (July 14-16), said this approach is made necessary by globalization, openness onto external markets and their projected belonging to a free trade area with the European Union.

He added in an interview with Tunisian weekly "Realities" that it is for this aim that the two North African countries set up a business council to establish a new culture of partnership and association to reach a better integration and a genuine change of mentalities.

Talking about relations between the Maghreb and the European Union, the CGEM chairman said the association agreements that Morocco and Tunisia signed with the European Union are not very profitable, because Rabat and Tunis are undertaking on their own efforts to upgrade the competitiveness of their economy.

He went on that the two countries have to unify their approaches in order to convince Europe that it is in its own interest that the Mediterranean southern bank develops, adding that relations between the two groups should not be only based on security bases, but also on humanitarian and economic ones.

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