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- The Mediterranean Union is a project by Nicolas Sarkozy, a project that aims at tightening the economical and political links between the countries neighboring this sea.

- Let’s go to Tangier, for our tonight dossier. This harbor could become a realization of this idea,

- it is becoming more modern to become the leader of the hosting of container-ships. Pascal Verdeau and Tahar Nasri.

- A myriad of trucks and crates. We are in Tangier Med,

- the economical display of Morocco over the Mediterranean. An exposed ambition, to create a now tool for import-export

- and to host offshore the largest container-ships in the world.

- Because the royal will is to boost trade, all those quays were sold to private societies,

- and to boost the north of Morocco, neglected for long. The future harbor platform will integrate a sea and railroad station joining the Tangier Oujda motorway.

- Today, there are 100, 000 ships that cruise in the strait, east, west, north, south. We positioned ourselves with this project exactly at the right time.

- Today, we have single trips, half an hour long, by Europe, with roll-on-roll-off ships

- to transport trucks for international transport and travelers, what allows us to be almost in Europe without really be in Europe.

- And what if the secret of Morocco, Hassan II’s, was to join the European Union? True to say that now, Rabat is content with being the best student of neighboring policy

- that gathers about 15 states from the south and the east under the authority of this Commissioner. On that day, Mrs. Ferrero Waldner came to bring a major budget.

- For the years 2007 to 2010, we will have access to 654 million Euros

- and it is added to some thematical financial tools to go towards men’s rights, to help fight immigration.

- A cooperation to which Nicolas Sarkozy proposes to add his profit, the Mediterranean Union.

- As the French president said, we will earn everything or we will lose everything. A diagnosis shared by Morocco that insists on the geopolitical dimension of the project.

- There is a deep cultural dialogue to set. We have to learn how to speak about the same things in the same terms.

- What is Islam, Islamism, what is radical, what isn’t?

- And if we succeed in the Mediterranean, a must, an emergency, then we can imagine an immediate appeased relationship between the north and the south on a worldwide scale.

- A lab for co-development, or a creative utopia, the European Union aims at everyone.

- Meanwhile, Morocco focuses on her ambition to become Europeans’ partner number one.

- More than a mere association with the European Union, but less than an adhesion, Morocco demands an evolved status to Brussels

- as regards the Mediterranean project, it accepts it but on the condition that it were not an empty shell.