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VEND 2, SAM. 3 ET DIM. 4 FÉVRIER 2024 - N°6695 NE PEUT ÊTRE VENDU SÉPARÉMENT DÉPÔT LÉGAL 100/1991 DIRECTEUR DE PUBLICATION KHALID BELYAZID
Weekly highlights by

Investment

Court of Auditors

points out

shortcomings

Teachers

Recruitment to

remain regional

Agricultural crisis
in France

Moroccan trucks

ransacked and

burned

L’Economiste-Sunergia/Moudawana reform survey Casablanca looks

7 out of 10 against equal after its heritage...

Really?

inheritance rights

Editorial Prism Khalid BELYAZID

A capital city blocked by demonstrators, and armored cars to deter have one obsession: European environmental protection standards. Bad
them. In Africa, it would be the disorder of an underdeveloped for them, good for others. And one demand: more subsidies. They want
country, a revolution in the making, a repressive state. In Paris, it's a to export wheat and champagne, but be protected from importing meat or
peaceful expression of democracy, against a state that protects property and tomatoes when they can't compete.
rights. With this prism, this doublespeak, the Western media and politicians Free trade is when I'm the strongest. If a Moroccan entrepreneur de-
qualify the same facts. Today, the «mobilizations» of French farmers are a mands this, he'll be called a rentier. Their government will give in. None
cause for concern, especially as Moroccan trucks have been attacked and of us is happy about the unrest in France, with which we have close ties.
loads of fruit and vegetables destroyed. Imagine French trucks being sub- It is just an opportunity to point out that street protests and the destruction
jected to the same violence in Morocco. It would be the subject of endless of other people's property also affect rich countries, where the laws and
coverage on French TV, and a condemnation by the European Parliament mechanisms of democracy are flouted, even in Paris. As for African capi-
of a country where instability and «legal insecurity» reign, unworthy of the tals, they are quiet; they have forgotten their peasants and think only of
partnership agreement with the EU. Basically, these brave French farmers their football players.o