{"id":123114,"date":"2025-10-05T12:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=123114"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:32:47","slug":"rabat-tns-roudani-moroccan-sahara-emerges-as-a-geo-economic-hub-under-eu-morocco-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=123114","title":{"rendered":"Rabat (TNS) Roudani Moroccan Sahara Emerges as a Geo-Economic Hub Under EU-Morocco Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabat &#8211; 4 October 2025 (TNS): The signing by Morocco and the European Union (EU) of the exchange of letters amending the agricultural agreement binding the two parties marks a founding step in the construction of a shared prosperity corridor, underlined geostrategy and security expert Cherkaoui Roudani.<\/p>\n<p>Roudani indicated that this signature is not a simple sectoral adjustment but rather an act of geo-economic sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>By confirming that agricultural products from the Moroccan Sahara benefit from the same tariff preferences as those from the northern regions of the Kingdom, the EU is enshrining a truth that Rabat has always affirmed: any agreement signed with Morocco is signed with its entire territory, with inviolable respect for its territorial integrity, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the expert clarified that this amendment is much more than a tariff mechanism, but places the Moroccan Sahara as an emerging geo-economic hub and a strategic node of agri-food flows linking Europe, Africa and the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Through the labeling promoting the regions of La\u00e2youne-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Eddahab, this agreement projects the southern provinces of the Kingdom as platforms for a new model of inclusive development, he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the press note, Roudani stressed that the Moroccan Sahara is thus becoming a pivotal territory, generating wealth, creating jobs and a catalyst for genuine territorial socio-economic autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>On the strategic level, the EU is sending a clear signal and is placing its relationship with Morocco in a logic where agricultural resources, logistics corridors and transcontinental value chains become instruments of stability and shared power, he continued, noting that the Moroccan Sahara is now a zone of geostrategic attraction and a crossroads of the future where the roads to global prosperity are being redesigned.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, this amended agricultural agreement marks a turning point in the Morocco-EU relationship: it is a moment of geo-economic crystallization where law, economics and politics converge to seal a more robust and visionary alliance between the two parties,\u00a0he\u00a0concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabat &#8211; 4 October 2025 (TNS): The signing by Morocco and the European Union (EU) of the exchange of letters amending the agricultural agreement binding the two parties marks a founding step in the construction of a shared prosperity corridor, underlined geostrategy and security expert Cherkaoui Roudani. Roudani indicated that this signature is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":123115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123116,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123114\/revisions\/123116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}