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IMF highlights Morocco’s sound economic fundamentals

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Morocco’s economic fundamentals and policy frameworks are sound as the government remains committed to reforms amid a positive macroeconomic outlook. Morocco’s policy priorities “include continued fiscal prudence and progress toward exchange rate flexibility, and reforms of taxation, governance, oversight of state owned enterprises, fiscal decentralization, and the business environment,” […]

Islamic law and human rights: do they mix? (part I)

There is an ideological dichotomy between international human rights law and Islamic law, which may explain the numerous human rights abuses in the Muslim world. On August 19, the faculty of law of Buenos Aires University presented the first international code of human rights published by Thomson Reuters. It gathers all the rights, declarations and […]

Moroccans, Largest Group Acquiring EU citizenship in 2016- Eurostat

Moroccans were the largest group acquiring the citizenship of an EU member state in 2016, said the EU statistics office, Eurostat. In total, 101,300 Moroccans received the citizenship of a EU country, of whom 89% acquired citizenship of Spain, Italy (34,8%) or France (17,5%). Albanians were ranked second with 67,500, of whom 97% acquired citizenship […]