Macron's desperation

Never before has French foreign policy, which Macron intends to set right by instrumentalising the European Parliament in order to bend the Kingdom of Morocco to his will with the farce of human rights, fallen so low. 

Why does the French president want to set the Maghreb on fire? 

At the same time as the European Parliament was attacking Qatar and its 2022 World Cup in defence of human rights, the EU was discovering what was vox populi, the corruption of its MEPs. A perversion that has its origins in the lobbies that nestle this institution and surround it with luxurious offices in Brussels. There are around 3,000 lobbying structures. Pharmaceutical, agri-food, technology, energy, etc. industries hold the will of many European representatives hostage. 

Incidentally, we no longer have any news about Qatargate since Doha threatened to cut off gas supplies to Europe. In reality, this affair, if it existed, would only be the tip of an iceberg called "Parliamentgate" with which this institution is trying to cover up its own shame. 

There is no need to talk here about the farce of human rights that the recalcitrant European ultra-left sectarianism uses as an argument to attack Morocco. But it never does so vehemently with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Algeria and its Polisario mercenaries. Nor did it do so in the face of racial discrimination against Syrians and Africans, who were greeted with barbed wire fences, while Ukrainian refugees were exquisitely received. It does not even criticise France, as Giorgia Meloni fiercely did, for controlling the currency of 14 African countries, taking part of their wealth. 

The European Parliament's foolish plot against Morocco was simply Macron's recklessness, starting with the Pegasus spyware, where an investigation promoted by the European Commission itself would point out that the main clients of this spyware were European. However, there was no condemnatory resolution against it. Nor, at the time, was there one against the United States and the NSA for the eavesdropping on former chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders. 

Instead, it passed a resolution, instigated by Stéphane Séjourné, close to Macron, that was as useless as it was vexatious against Morocco in order to dynamite Morocco's "soft power" in the eyes of an international community that, on the other hand, recognises the great progress made by the Maghreb country. And, as if that were not enough, these MEPs, supported mainly by the European ultra-left, decided to expel the Moroccan representatives to this institution. But not before inviting Sultana Khaya, the Polisario terrorist of the "AK-47". When will we invite Hezbollah? 

It is good to remember that Morocco is breaking all records in its democratic, economic and social, as well as military, development, which positions it as the undisputed leader of the Maghreb without needing to ask anyone's permission. Moreover, the Maghreb country has managed to penetrate Africa with a political, economic and even religious strategy that combines security, stability and co-development, and is today a model for the entire continent to follow. 

This progress clashes with the neo-colonial approach of a Macron who has been evicted from Africa, ignored by the US in the AUKUS (Australia-UK-US military alliance for the Indo-Pacific) and incapable of leading the EU. His recent tour of the African continent, amid anti-French sentiment, was a failure. His new Africa Strategy aimed at safeguarding what remains of his interests and countering Moroccan influence has been of little use. Indeed, King Mohammed VI, on his short African tour, avoided meeting the French president. 

The 'Macronian', not EU, pulse on Morocco is explained by the Maghreb country's paradigm shift towards closer relations with countries that support the autonomy solution for the Moroccan Sahara. This obviously excludes France. This is coupled with the signing of the Abraham agreements and the country's supply of American and Israeli war materiel, as well as a plunge into cutting-edge military industry. 

What's more, the interested France-Algeria reconciliation was made possible by the convergence of Algeria's hunger and France's desire to eat. On the one hand, Algeria is hungry for weapons, having been overtaken by Morocco. And frightened by the fiasco of the Russian fighters, of which it has plenty, it urgently needed to buy weapons. On the other hand, France is thirsty to sell its Rafales aircraft and submarines following the suspension of contracts by Switzerland and Australia. 

Macron's attitude contrasts with that of the EU. For Euro-Moroccan cooperation is fruitful and 'in crescendo'. It is considered the closest and most diversified in history. The Mohamed VI Foundation for investments will be supported by European funds. Five cooperation programmes worth 600 million euros have recently been signed. And at the end of March, a new agreement, this time tripartite, will be signed with Israel. 

It also contrasts with the cooperative attitude of the Biden administration and the US Congress. Members of the Administration, congressmen and senators frequently attend working meetings with their Moroccan colleagues. Recently, US Armed Forces Chief of Staff Mark Milley visited the Kingdom with a large delegation to seal the defence alliance. At the same time, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita visited the White House to conclude, with his counterpart Antony Blinken, the Morocco-US alliance. 

Morocco has demonstrated its multiple capabilities, which have elevated it to the status of a strategic partner of the EU and a shield for the West. And this is what Biden acknowledges after confirming what the Maghreb country had been warning that Iran was planning to bring instability to the Maghreb and insecurity to Europe from the Sahel, in collaboration with Algeria and its Polisario mercenaries, Hezbollah and the Russian Wagner group. 

The irresponsible instrumentalisation of the European Parliament for a particular agenda of Macron's failed foreign policy, in Africa and especially in the Maghreb, constitutes a dangerous precedent. And at a time of extreme complexity in international geopolitics. Thus, while Europe is making giant strides towards its Third World War, Macron is trying to set fire to the Maghreb as the only recourse to regain control of the Maghreb in a hypothetical Morocco-Algeria conflict. 

And this is possible if we take into account the moronic Algerian military leadership that is ready to turn its failed state into a new Yemen, Syria or Libya before granting society a real demilitarised civilian government with a national project. 

Macron, once the fire of a burning Paris has been extinguished, will surrender to a Morocco that no longer envisages any scenario other than the explicit recognition of the Moroccan Sahara.