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". – Mr President, the Commission pursues a global and balanced approach to immigration from Morocco. Given the importance of the subject, migration is one of the five priorities of the country strategy paper covering the period 2002 to 2006 for financial cooperation with Morocco. It is also covered by the Association Agreement between the EC and Morocco.
Our approach to migration is comprehensive. Attention is paid both to legal and illegal migration and to the socio-economic dimension. This comprehensive approach is also reflected in our MEDA programming. Within this framework we will aim to help the Moroccan authorities to better organise legal migration. A project to set up a migration centre is currently being prepared. Morocco and the EC have also agreed to cooperate in preventing and combating illegal migration. As a first step, a border management programme will help the Moroccan authorities to establish greater border security and to fight trafficking in human beings. This programme, which is worth about EUR 40 million, will be committed in 2003.
Furthermore, we are addressing the socio-economic causes of migration, in particular in the northern provinces of Morocco, which account for about 35% of total emigration from that country. This region also benefited from substantial MEDA funding and another EUR 70 million are programmed for socio-economic development in 2004. The majority of the existing projects in the northern provinces help improve the economic situation of migrant as well as non-migrant women, in particular through basic education for girls in rural areas, maternal and child health services, promotion of productive activities for women and provision of basic infrastructures.
In addition to MEDA, the Commission is financing projects under the budget line 'cooperation with third countries in the area of migration'. EUR 3.3 million have been committed for projects in Morocco, in particular in the areas of co-development, intergovernmental migration dialogue and the fight against illegal immigration."@en1
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