They come from the Ural Mountains which they came to from Turkic lands. So their roots are related to Turks but we need a deeper research to find an objective answer.
For Australia in Eurovision, that was the EBU (European Broadcasting Union)'s decision (initially as a guest participant but now a regular) to include them. Also because of reasons (could make a video on that), Israel is in Eurovision too and Morocco once was
Ironically enough, this argument could easily be applied to the whole continent of America due to their historical ties with Europe as a whole (The Spanish/Portuguese, British-English, French, massive European immigration, etc).
Seems to me that both Europe and Canada would benefit from such a partnership. As an American myself, I would never let the USA in. We'd try to dominate it and we'd ruin it.
@@Fauntleroy. Not only that, Latin/Hispanic American countries would highly benefit as well, thing is though, at the end it would only be an issue due to huge differences between many of these countries (be it political or historical) since none of them would of agree with it, institutional corruption would also be an issue (not like Europe is in a better place anyways).
@@chabecoLatin American countries are more likely to align with themselves or the US, then Europe or Spain. Even then Latin America is already influenced by "Western" Markets so they don't really need to choose between the US or Europe. What they need is help with regional stability against gangs and international criminal organizations, and the only countries that are capable of helping them are the US, and China; which good luck with that, they essentially fund everything those cartels do whether it's unintentionally or intentionally.
@@chrisriverata1917Brazil, the largest economy in Latin America, belongs to the BRICS and Argentina was part of it, therefore, they also have a lot of tensions between them, so I believe that the others will also end up with the BRICS, the European Union has standards to be able Entering the BRICS doesn't matter as long as you have resources or a growing economy
Not true, I'm Moroccan and I'm sure that many big European superpowers are in favor of the independence of western Sahara at that time like Spain so that argument wouldn't make sense, it's more of that Morocco has huge diaspora in most of western Europe and there's only couple kilometers between Europe and Morocco @@Lawrence.Laurentius
kind of true since tho history explaned how the sahara is morrocan other contries like algeria want the western sahara to be independant to use it to acsess the pacific osion
@@decarts7666 No major power recognizes Western Sahara. The primary reason why Morocco wanted to Join the EU was because the African Union recognized Western Shara.
That was not Morocco. Stop relating ancient civilization to modern nations (I'm not refering to states). Roman Empire is not Italy so is it incorrect saying that Italy controlled Egland, France or Spain. The Visigothic Kingdom is not Spain, so is incorrect saying that Spain controlled Portugal and South France. The almoravid and almohad Empire is not Morocco, so is incorrect saying that Morocco controlled Spain and Portugal. Do you understand?
@@pedritopedrito_ No it's Morocco ( the Moroccan Capital "Marrakesh" ruled Spain and Portugal for centuries in the time of Almohad Empire and Almoravid Empire. )
@@pedritopedrito_ In 791, the Moroccan State was created. Idriss I, descendant of Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet, flee Arabia to escape the massacre of his family and settled in Volubilis, eventually founding the city of 'Fez', that was designated, after his death in 792, as capital of the Kingdom by his son, Idriss II, who succeed him.
@@pedritopedrito_ Spanish poem from the 13th century: The king of Morocco makes it known that he'll fight all Christian kings together with his wicked Andalusian and Arabs, armed against the faith in Christ Those he has chosen have so much pride Moroccan almoravids, pause in heaps amidst the meadows; and they mouth among themselves:(Saying) "Franks, make place! Ours are Provença and the Comtat de Tolosa and all the territory up to Puy!" Poem by gavaudan, senhors per los nostres peccatz, 1200 AD
This is why I, as a European, love Morocco. They're bros. Everytime there's an African Cup of Nations, I'm rooting for Morocco. I was happy they made it to the World Cup semi-finals 2 years ago.
@@elnino5114 I've actually never been to Morocco. I don't do holidays, I staycation to relax. Too much of a logistical and bureaucratic hassle for my taste... holidays. So, I don't know WTF you're talking about. It's obvious you don't know or understand anything about me. And I will continue to answer friendship with friendship.
as a moroccan am glad the country was not accepted int he organisation seeing what it is heading to and the conflicts it got involved into, morocco is now a free pivot state with strategical and equibilired relations with the east the west and the south.
all European countries are full of Moroccan immigrants who are fleeing the poverty of their country, fortunately Morocco has not joined the Union otherwise we would have had a Moroccan diaspora
Nobody wants you in the EU neither , the EU has already passed laws to not buy any agricultural products from Morocco ever again 😂@@Rising-north-africa
all European countries are full of Moroccan immigrants who are fleeing the poverty of their country, fortunately Morocco has not joined the Union otherwise we would have had a Moroccan diaspora
A five minute video a'd you failed to mention the most important reason Morocco tried to join the EU which is Morocco's withdrawal from the African union after they recognized a a militia as a state
As a french, I'm very likely in the minority, but if the moroccans, tunisians or algerians ever want to join the EU, I'd be fully in favor of opening the door.
@@marcbuisson2463 I'm an Algerian atheist, but I rather my country be in an alliance of Arab states. Moroccans, Syrians, Palestinians, Sudanis and Egyptians are closer to me than any western people.
@@marcbuisson2463 I disagree, not because of Marrocco, but simply because it is already difficult for the EU to decide with 27 member states. Adding more will only make things worse. First, the EU needs to figure out how to be more decisive, otherwise adding more members is a bad idea, no matter who the members are.
@@PosthumanProphet I'm a moroccan atheist lol, well while I see your point, I think if our countries were to join the EU we could expect better human rights laws and better quality of life in general. There won't be a sense of comradeship between us and westerners but it would probably still be a net positive for us. Of course it's a wild unrealistic idea tho.
Fun Fact : When Spain tried to join the EU, one of the criteria was to recognise... Israel. When i think about it, i wonder why Morroco wasn't accepted at least as a potential candidate.
@@gregorio360p not really, they only have relations, but comparing Turkish or Qatar or Emirats or Egypte relations to Israel are much stronger than relations with morocco
After completing my A-Levels in 1988 I looked into Interrailing around Europe. The interrail ticket covered Western Europe, excluding the UK, Czechoslovakia, and Morocco down to Marrakech. I only had a British Visitors Passport, which was cardboard, was valid for a year and could be bought over the counter at a post office. Apart from EEC and EEA countries the BVP also covered Morocco.
Africans like to repeat this fact to convince themselves that Moroccans don't like being African even though: - Morocco would have still been in the African Union and only sought this for economic reasons as its biggest trading partners were Spain and France - Morocco today has the highest FDI into African countries out of all African countries - the King constantly reminds the "South-South cooperation", "Africa first" policy of Morocco's investments - The country announced it will finance infrastructurers to facilitate landlocked Sahel countries's access to the Atlantic - Morocco's biggest allies in Africa are all subsaharian and not north african (Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia)
Morocco being in Africa has absolutely NOTHING to do with the failure to access the EU. While Morocco is a comparatively stable and solid country, it is not a democracy in the commonly accepted sense of the word. The EU's final purpose is that of reaching a complete integration, a federal republic of sorts. It is not possible to do so with a member that is a de facto absolute monarchy with limited women's rights and non existent LGBT rights.
@@mauri3853 why would a non European country be accepted in a European bloc? That’s like Spain applying to the African union (although this would actually at least make some sense since Spain does have territory in Africa)
I think the main reason that Morocco was rejected for membership was because of their system of government being very different from modern European nations and their economy/standard of living being worse than Europe's. Their geographical location is the least of their problems.
@@موسى_7but not better then the majority of European countries, that's the main problem with you arabs and Muslims, "Always over proud of yourself" even the great Japanese and Chinese people aren't that confident and proud !
It's application was based on the fact that as an imperial power Moorish dynasties ruled Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years. By the same login Italy could also apply to join African Union.
Europe has always been a moldeable term. It used to be Greece and its colonies, then it was all the lands under the Roman Empire, including northern Africa and definitely not the barbarians in the north. Then when the southern part of the Roman Empire (arguable southern Europe at the time) was lost to the muslims, what is now northern Europe was integrated through christianization and conquests. Then the Russians wanted to also be included when originally, what is now Poland and western Ukraine was the limit of "Europe". Not to mention Anatolia, who would be 100% considered part of Europe if what is now Greece had not lost it.
And if Anatolia would still be Europe, the Levant would probably be as well. Especially Israel and Lebanon have very strong arguements to be European. Oh and Georgia and Armenia want to be considered Europe as well, while definetly not wanting Russia to count as Europe.
@@KityKatKiller For sure. Egypt as well. If the Eastern Roman empire never fell, who the F would tell them "you are not Europe" bro they invented the word, the Greeks did, which are a core part of Rome. The border with Europe would be the historical border between Persia and Rome in Irak. That Denmark or Sweden or even Poland are part of Europe is weirder than Egypt or Syria, only Christianity and Islam cultural divide make seem "normal". Also the whole mediterranean as part of a single continent makes sense. Sahara is a huge barrier compared to a trading enabler sea.
@@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER Huh? This is not a question of "want" This is just a logical point about the fact that the borders of what is considered Europe are relatively arbitrary and could easily include Levantine countries. The more western oriented obviously before the rest.
spain is considered an european country and it has some territories in morocco but Ceuta and mallelia is considred from africa they have nothing to do with morocco joining EU.
@@AstralGamer12 but they're part of the EU which confirms that being part of Africa doesn't disqualify from joining the EU. So yes, it does have something to do with the topic of Morocco joining the EU
Any question you have about Moroccan foreign policy after independence can pretty much be summed up in two words: "Western Sahara". Everything Morocco does on the world stage is based around finally getting that issue resolved. It's why they applied for the EU, why theres so much tension with Algeria, why they recognized Israel, and why they commited troops to help the US in the Gulf War and the war on Terror.
@@Hardossful The colonizers are the ones who took that land in the first place and once they got kicked out they had to make sure to leave it in as much turmoil and choas as possible to make sure their former subjects always stay beamth them. A Sahrawi is just as much a Moroccan as a Riffi or a Shilh. The people who suffer most from all this is the actual Sahrawi people who have been brainwashed by their leaders to continue fighting against stability and live their lives as refugees meanwhile their leaders are living in multimillion dollar homes in France and pocketing all of that money the Algerians throw at them.
Ngl Algeria do be that annoying sibling that doesn't mind their business, like poliziario is not strong by any means but it keeps getting finances and weapons
i do hope we can see an eu expansion like this at some point, feel it would need to drop the european part of the name tho as the economic block changes and evolves over time
What the sea and nature separate cannot be brought together in one union. I believe that Albania, Bosnia and Ukraine are the closest to the European Union geographically.
they ain't giving you a free visa by saying this,the islam has noting to do with living with non muslims,then why many europeans who move to morocco don't say this before they do huh ?why they don't say we are europeans,we can't live with muslims overe there in morocco?
@yassineuariste3488 there's a miniscule number of Europeans moving to Morocco compared to the number of Marrocans moving to Europe. Not to mention a lot of the Europeans moving to Morocco are actually Marrocans born and raised in Europe with European IDs and passports so they might be classified as Europeans on paper
Actually Cyprus is part of the eu without being a European country, just because of history, literally Cyprus is an asian country ( middle eastern) and when Morocco said , historical tirs to Europe it didn't mean colonization era , it meant since at least the roman times when Morocco was part of the roman empire, and in medieval times when Morocco literally ruled spain and Portugal for over 200 years or something like that , so it more of the history between the land which literally obvious, north Africa and Europe and the middle east share history together more than with sub Saharan Africa or asia , and its not the same as saying latin American countries can say that to join too , because yes some latin Americans are of european origins and some Moroccans too , but its about the history of being one nation for hundreds of years before medieval and in medieval times, and actually some people literally call the area greater Europe or something like which includes some parts of the middle east ( former roman land) and north Africa for its times and history with Europe, and also culturally north Africa ( Morocco Algeria tunisia ) are close to Spanish Italian Portuguese french cultures , and most of the people speak in dariga whi is kind , literally what Maltese people speak in malta , so its more of like , Morocco tried to say , listen we might be located in the african continent but most of our business history geopolitcs is in Europe so we want to be part of the eu, and actually dome countries like the idea such as Sweden, but some didn't like spain who was trying to be a member at the time and both spain and Morocco were kind of poor nations spain just removed or ended franco dictatorship, and tgey didn't like Morocco in the eu because both offered the same thing agriculture products, anyway im just trying to explain what i think the Moroccan government tried to say
The idea of limiting the EU to the continent is absurd!!! Its like saying you are a complete adult when you are older than 18 but an infant below that age. Or like saying you can only have lunch between 12h and 13h. Or like saying everyone above 185 cm is large and everyone below is a dwarf.
All of this history of European-North African cultural ties are nice background and all but the actual reason was to get back at the African Union for admitting the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as a member.
They probably were just aiming to be a candidate state. This makes you eligeble for better trade deals. European market protectionism would be less of an issue.
morocco wanted to join EU after when he was betrayed by africain and accepted polisario in African Union and also he was betrayed by the arab ligue when egypte syria libya algeria also palestine im so sad who declared war against morocco because all of this arab are comunist and they cause de fall of the monarchi of many arab country and they wanted to do the same thing in morocco and divised morocco from his sahara
Big reason why they recognized Israel too is firstly because USA is a big ally of Israel and they want it to be recognized but also because Israel itself is a reliable ally that unlike many countries isn't allied with others already since many countries back Algeria ecc... also Morocco has issues with Spain too ecc.. so yeah people forget that the real world is harsh Morocco just doing what it gotta do
Wdym u mean declared war against morroco the only war I remember was when morroco invaded Algeria and got their asses kicked back to where they came from to a 1 year independent Algeria
yes but it's not anymore, that's like saying Russia should extend to France because Tsar Alexander once managed to reach it. let's not be imperialist/colonialist that's very stupid. Morocco's borders are from the mediterranean to Mauritania and that's that.
@@JadenHawkins-ou5eq yes, but in the video we are talking about history, so when the map of Morocco in the 17th century in this video is false, I’m not talking about the 21st century’s map
Add that Morocco shares geographical borders with the European Union. Spain still occupies two cities in Morocco, which are part of Spain, so Morocco already has borders with Europe.
Melilla and Ceuta belong to spaniards as Spanish cities , both were Spanish centuries ago that Morocco become a Land in 1956 officially, shame on you and propaganda Alawi
@@smdafrica8335 Ceuta is an autonomous city of Spain and one of the several Spanish territories in Africa wich includes Melilla and the Canary Islands, and to tell you, in Wikipedia there is even the name in the Amazigh language, and they speak both Spanish and Moroccan Darija, and don't tell me it's because of Hijra siriya and all that absurd stuff, since the 10th century they were part of some north african dynasties like the Almoravid Berbers and Almohads, even the Tunisian Hafsids have taken control and finally The Marinids and the Fez in 1387, and as you guys can see, they're practically all Moroccan dynasties and just to tell you, before Sebta became a Spanish colony, it was a Portuguese colony until the treaty of Lisbon. To let you know, in 2007, the Spanish government visited the city for the first time since 80 years. Mellila has pretty much the same story but not with the Portuguese part, now shame on you bruv. Another thing, did you ever heard of a Spanish city having Eid Al Adha as an official public holiday, well Ceuta and Melilla did it in 2010 wich is another religious argument...
NO NO NO NO NO.... SORRY WE DON T NEED EU ESPECIALLY AFTER THE COVID19 CRISIS !!!! AS MOROCCANS, WE NEED MORE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE US OR ASIAN NOT THE EUROPEANS... UK DID IT AND SAID BYE TO EUROPE AND ENERGY CRISIS WITH THE RUSSIAN WAR ....AND MUCH PROBLEMS .... NO NEED PROBLEM THANK YOU
People keep using the "But X country can participate in Eurovision!" argument as if that contest had anything to with the EU. Just because an organization has "Euro" in its name, it doesn't mean it's an EU organism. For example, the ESA, the ESC and UEFA are NOT affiliated with the EU at all
@@wakakabravo7998 they have greek heritage for over 1000 years also were crusade state for 100 years as well as Venetian till the 1700s. They speak Greek and are orthodox. For all intents and purposes they are one extra Greek Island. If it wasn't for... ugh... the T u r k s... bah
@@thescarecrow2710 everytime i go on the internet i see at least 1 person complaining about us because of some shit which happened centuries ago, why are you guys so butthurt about us all the time. literally rent free
Personally, if a country that is not on Europe but reasonably close to it and fulfilled all the requirements besides the geografical one I would be in favor of it joining the EU. It may make the name a bit inacurate but we can always rename it to European-Mediterranian Union if we want to be more accurate. Culturally it would make sense aswell. There are already many people hailing from the South Mediterranian here in Europe, which I have no issue with because the tension around the migrant issue is the result of an antiquated, unempathetic and inefficient migration system which is in dire need of modernization and extensive reform to process all these migrants and make legal immigration realistically achievable.
the alaouit map you shared is wrong (the map before colonisation).because at that time the sheriffian empire included todays morocco,todays mauritania,timbuktu and the moroccan eastern sahara which was taken by the french and added to today's algeria
@@ALMoZaxa Moroccans are so funny 🤣 It's literally mentioned in historical sources that the control of the alaouites was weak and didn't pass the the atlas mountains east an south for 95% of the the alaouite period and at times it didn't reach beyond the surroundings of the capital cities of fes and Marrakech which were considered two separate states by the way. Making up maps will never change history.
the morrocan map before colonization was smaller than the one shown on the video. Pre colonial morroco was made of 2 small sultanates which are fez and Marrakech
I am surprised by the respect I found in the comments, nor did I find any comments criticizing Moroccans (I don't know if you deleted the ones that said those things)
@@machocoder22aliastuftyshoe79 Spain was part of Morocco so yeah but who cares about Europe anyway hahaha from my position I see zero benefits other than reducing barriers while traveling instead of applying for Visas but that's an internal issue and could be solved later with more diplomatic ties
@@machocoder22aliastuftyshoe79 @machocoder22aliastuftyshoe79 it's the other way around If you read more Moors ruled large parts of the lberian Peninsula (modern-day Spain and Portugal) from 711 to 1492, a period of about 781 years
@machocoder22aliastuftyshoe79 I think you're confused Morocco ruled andalusia for a while that's why your andalusian culture is heavily influenced from Morocco if it weren't for france and Spain both infiltrating Morocco things would've been different wouldn't they
Morocco didn't want to join EU for they want to, but the real reason was to get on nerves of Spain and UK since Morocco has two cities and some islands still occupied by Spain and Spain has Gibraltar occupied by UK so Morocco's argument was if the two cities mainly located in Morocco africa are considered European then and by that logic Morocco should also be a part of the European union and of course Spain won't give up the two cities until UK give up back Gibraltar to Spain Morocco used this to show out how is Europe playing on two phases when it comes out to their political and geopolitical interests
@@lordkfc1297 ruled by Spain but they obviously are in Morocco.. we are adults by now we should stop convincing ourselves by things we know to be untrue
@@almami1599 They are not in Morocco buddy, they are in Spain. Just because they border Morocco doesn't mean they are in Morocco xD. You will be right when they are declared as colonies by the UN, until then they are both Spanish and on Spanish soil.
@@lordkfc1297 just because Spain rules don’t make them Spain things are not so literal and the UN isn’t the authority on sense, Algeria was never France because France said so and Angola was never Portugal
@@almami1599 It quite literally means they are Spanish pal, or is San Marino part of Italy just because it is surrounded by Italy? Both cities have been Spanish since the 1500s, so they are Spanish, like it or not. And on this matter the world backs Spain because otherwise the UN would have added the cities to their list of territories pending decolonization xD. "the UN isn’t the authority on sense" - The UN really IS the authority on this matter because every recognized country in the world has a say on it. And Morocco is free to try to change that, like they have been trying for decades.
why would we want to? at least as a Moroccan, I feel much more African than anything else. Don't need the EU to feel validated. Don't know about Algerians or Tunisians
@@Hephaestus-b5o Integrating into the European community would offer Algeria and the Maghreb significant advantages, such as economic growth, increased investments, and access to European funding. This integration would enhance governance and foster cultural exchange. Following this, joining UEFA would elevate sports development, improve local club infrastructure, and attract more visibility and sponsorships. Ultimately, both steps could strengthen regional cooperation on various issues.
It was fundamentally a political move. Hassan II did not expect the application to proceed formally and he did not try to have Morocco apply in 1984. He deliberately presented his arguments at a political meeting: the objective was to strenghten the economic and political integration of Morocco in the European space. It seems, however, that the application proceeded anyway, and, as could be expected, was rejected by the Council on 1 October 1987, on the grounds that Morocco was not a European state (European Parliament, 1998). Note that the actual text of that Council decision is remarkably elusive: it is widely quoted but I have not been able to find it in the catalog of the Council archives. Hassan II explained his strategy explicitly in an interview given in December 1988 in the French magazine Le Point (cited by Essebbani, 2008). After saying that he did not plan for Morocco to join the EEC because he was "not able to keep up" with the Common Market, the King said that his strategy was to do a little bit like in artillery, the first shot has to be far away, as far away as possible from the target (...) so we just asked for integration. Since then, Morocco has signed a free trade Association Agreement with the EU (signed on 26 February 1996, in force on 1 March 2000). In 2008, Morocco was granted "advanced status", which is basically a roadmap for ongoing and future Morocco-EU partnership on economic, social, political, and security issues.
The geographic borders between Asia and Europe are all more or less arbitrary. Cyprus can be Europe and so can Israel. There's no strong reason to say the geographic border lies in the Bosporus Straight. It could just as well start at the eastern edge of Mesopotamia or go down the eastern border of Turkey. It's all on the same tectonic plate anyway.
@@joshuafrimpong244 Again, there are no clearcut geographical borders. Purely from a geographical context it wouldn't be hard to draw the line at the end of the Mesopotamian valley, so roughly the Iraq-Iran border. It's all the same tectonic plate. Cyprus is not just culturaly European, but depending on the geographic definition you use also geographically. Just like all of the Levant and Iraq.
first complete the map of morocco then talk about it The area of Morocco is 710850 km If you are american your country recognizes morocco's sovereignty over the moroccan Sahara
Well, if it weren’t for France, the Mercosur would close a very important free trade agreement with the EU. I’d argue Argentina (and Uruguay) are more likely to be accepted into the EU than Morocco lol specially with the current rise of nationalism and anti-Islam sentiments. Already millions of Argentinians have dual European citizenship, and still choose to live in Argentina. I’d imagine Morocco being closer and poorer (and lacking basic human rights) would mean a huge influx of migrants to mainland Europe, plus they wouldn’t be able to control the border with the rest of Africa.
@agme8045 right that's why I said Argentina specifically because it has strong historical and cultural ties to Europe which I'd argue are far more stronger than Morocco's since Morocco is still heavily influenced by Arab and Islamic cultures much like other North African nations which simply overshadows any relevant European influences,plus having a mainland African country join the EU whilst simultaneously being a member of the AU is confusing and awkward to be honest and Morocco's sever lack of development that is even lower than some Eastern European countries within the union,low HDI index and human rights as you mentioned would make it restricted from ever joining the EU from the get-go and this all coming from a Moroccan's prespective
@@RuffzSweatpants Western Europe has been leaching off most of the rest of the world for hundreds of years, the wealth it gained from that still funds much of European society today
The map of Morocco you showed at the beginning of the video is wrong. At the time morocco was mush bigger than that. If possible i would love if you fixed that 👍
Does this have something to do with Kaiser Wilhelm. I vaguely remember that the tensions that led to the WW1 had something to do with something going on in the Magreb region.
There were also strategic goals behind Hassan II's request to join the EU. Morocco ended up getting the advanced partnership status which granted it a bunch of trade advantages and aid money. So whoever thought this was funny/stupid/ridiculous doesn't understand that people sitting as the top of this kind of decisions know exactly what they are doing. Morocco might not be a democracy (as if all democracies were havens of prosperity and freedom) but it's always had a government/royal counsel made of elite thinkers and strategists.
The term "European" is meaningless because this term is used to group countries who share no history, geography, language and geopolitics. For example, Greece and Poland. Greece shares its history with other Middle Eastern and North African countries like Iran and Egypt and their geopolitical is tied to the Middle East and then Mediterranean. Poland is a Slavic country far away form Greece and they share no history and their geopolitics is tied to Russia.
It is a geographical union in the continent of Europe, despite the difference in languages between the countries. Hungarian-Lithuanian is different from French.
Roman civilization birthed Europe. So I don't see why in the future, north Africa can't join the EU. That is if they uphold all the criteria for joining, obviously. Human rights need to be guaranteed, democracy with all of its personal liberties, freedom of press and so on.
yeah, with how the eu is doing right now, nope. also, we definitly know that you secretly don't care about human rights or democracy or freedom of the press, why would we let your way control ours again after last time?
It was just a way to stick it to the UA because we left that organization. In the end it's just politics. Bless our king at the time, he knew how to stick it to people. Also what you fail to point out is that Spain has 2 enclaves in Northern Morocco and it's still part of the EU. If being on African soil is the only obstacle to membership, then by default Spain should be excluded of the EU because of Ceuta and Melilla. Same for France that has control of multiple islands in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, and even in South America.
EU is far from reach to morocco however i can see morocco joining Nato it is already a big ally to Nato , and with tensions rising in north african region Nato might take a move(just like the case with turkey)
@@hardadouzakariae9540both of you are answering diffrent questions. Morocco isnt getting in the EU because its muslim. The EU wouldnt add a big muslim country. Not HUGE Turkey & not either Morroco. They would get too much influence trough EU parliament. And it probably would not even want to be part of the EU. Just a candidate. A candidate gets better trade deals (money), likely better acces to the european markets.
This just mirrorise the failures of arabic countries leaderships to create an actual useful economic union even though we have more things in common than europe ever had
Morocco's foreign investment is 73.9% from Europe and only 19.3% Arab. The country has always been so much more economically tied to europe than it has the middle east. There's been too much turmoil and war in large parts of the arab world to allow them to ever become a serious economic force. Over half of the Arab population lives in countries like Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, and Sudan which are too torn apart by war to even be able to join a serious economic union.
@@kingdaymon6433 well why would go to the middle east just in magherb there are enormous missed opportunities for economic growth and jobs and the countries except libya are stable enough for that but the borders are closed the trade is almost nonexistent just to satisfy the ego of a bunch of rich "elites" from the both sides
@@mauri3853 The feud between Morocco and Algeria really is a tragedy. They're brothers that got divided and permenantly seperated by the Europeans. They sit on 75% of the worlds phosphates and the 5th largest supply of natural gas, imagine what they could do with that if they had worked together since independence rather than fought over a desert.
Do not forget the role of the United States in encouraging the Europeans to establish the European Union to confront the Soviet Union and providing them with money in the Marshall Plan, unlike the Arab countries, where oil goes to America for free, and many times they were loyal to the Russians and against Israel.
4:26 cultural none historical yeah obviously of invading the continent😂, someone has to remind Mongolia to apply to the EU just because they invaded the continent hundreds of years ago
Honestly, of all the ridiculous countries try to join such regional memberships, Morocco in the E.U isn't that crazy, heck they still border Spain through Ceuta and Melilla. If they give up the claims on those territories and strengthen the Constitutional powers of the state(long shot) I can see a world where an application goes through.
Better question would be why Serbia want to join ASEAN.
someone turned off historical focuses
@@ASlickNamedPimpback "Yugoslavia have joined the Chinese united front"
@@Munin_Artthanaporn Real
@@Munin_Artthanaporn "Spain has joined the African Union"
@@ASlickNamedPimpback "Italy has joined the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere"
Morocco: “Can I join the European Union ?”
Hungary: “Can I join the Turkic union?”
Serbia: "Can I join ASEAN?
Hungary,Finland, and Latvia can make a Finno-Uralic Union but won't be much useful
@@BarlasofIndus estonia, not latvia
They come from the Ural Mountains which they came to from Turkic lands. So their roots are related to Turks but we need a deeper research to find an objective answer.
@alidemirbas3722 But Urals didn't technecally came from Turkic, but Altaic
Morrocco: "Can i join the EEC"
EEC: "No, you are not european"
Australia: "Can i join the Eurovision"
EEC: "why yes, ofc"
Well you could make the argument that Australia is more European than Morocco.
Not Geographically tho 😂
Morocco has competed at Eurovision
For Australia in Eurovision, that was the EBU (European Broadcasting Union)'s decision (initially as a guest participant but now a regular) to include them.
Also because of reasons (could make a video on that), Israel is in Eurovision too and Morocco once was
Also Israel 🇮🇱 and Canada 🇨🇦 not only Australia 🇦🇺 join things like Eurovision or European Space Agency without being european 🇪🇺
@@emib6599 None of these 3 are in ESA. The only non-EU countries in ESA are Switzerland (because obviously) and the UK.
Ironically enough, this argument could easily be applied to the whole continent of America due to their historical ties with Europe as a whole (The Spanish/Portuguese, British-English, French, massive European immigration, etc).
Seems to me that both Europe and Canada would benefit from such a partnership. As an American myself, I would never let the USA in. We'd try to dominate it and we'd ruin it.
@@Fauntleroy. Not only that, Latin/Hispanic American countries would highly benefit as well, thing is though, at the end it would only be an issue due to huge differences between many of these countries (be it political or historical) since none of them would of agree with it, institutional corruption would also be an issue (not like Europe is in a better place anyways).
@@chabecoLatin American countries are more likely to align with themselves or the US, then Europe or Spain. Even then Latin America is already influenced by "Western" Markets so they don't really need to choose between the US or Europe. What they need is help with regional stability against gangs and international criminal organizations, and the only countries that are capable of helping them are the US, and China; which good luck with that, they essentially fund everything those cartels do whether it's unintentionally or intentionally.
@@chrisriverata1917Brazil, the largest economy in Latin America, belongs to the BRICS and Argentina was part of it, therefore, they also have a lot of tensions between them, so I believe that the others will also end up with the BRICS, the European Union has standards to be able Entering the BRICS doesn't matter as long as you have resources or a growing economy
It’s already a shitty union, why would America even want to join.
Maybe the real Europe was the friends we made along the way
is this a MatPad in mrbeast's video reference?
@@rayenbabdi it's more of a popular joke inspired by early cartoons and their philosophy about friendship being a treasure
I don't want to expose you, but you always curse them.
@@Rahimi9393 especially the french
the last battle
The short answer is Morocco was angry with the African Union because of the western Sahar issue.
True
Not true, I'm Moroccan and I'm sure that many big European superpowers are in favor of the independence of western Sahara at that time like Spain so that argument wouldn't make sense, it's more of that Morocco has huge diaspora in most of western Europe and there's only couple kilometers between Europe and Morocco @@Lawrence.Laurentius
@@decarts7666 they weren't
kind of true since tho history explaned how the sahara is morrocan other contries like algeria want the western sahara to be independant to use it to acsess the pacific osion
@@decarts7666
No major power recognizes Western Sahara. The primary reason why Morocco wanted to Join the EU was because the African Union recognized Western Shara.
Morocco was ruling Spain and Portugal for centuries.
That makes sense
That was not Morocco. Stop relating ancient civilization to modern nations (I'm not refering to states). Roman Empire is not Italy so is it incorrect saying that Italy controlled Egland, France or Spain. The Visigothic Kingdom is not Spain, so is incorrect saying that Spain controlled Portugal and South France. The almoravid and almohad Empire is not Morocco, so is incorrect saying that Morocco controlled Spain and Portugal. Do you understand?
@@pedritopedrito_ No it's Morocco ( the Moroccan Capital "Marrakesh" ruled Spain and Portugal for centuries in the time of Almohad Empire and Almoravid Empire. )
@@pedritopedrito_ In 791, the Moroccan State was created. Idriss I, descendant of Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet, flee Arabia to escape the massacre of his family and settled in Volubilis, eventually founding the city of 'Fez', that was designated, after his death in 792, as capital of the Kingdom by his son, Idriss II, who succeed him.
@@pedritopedrito_
Spanish poem from the 13th century:
The king of Morocco makes it known that he'll fight all Christian kings together with his wicked Andalusian and Arabs, armed against the faith in Christ Those he has chosen have so much pride Moroccan almoravids, pause in heaps amidst the meadows; and they mouth among themselves:(Saying) "Franks, make place! Ours are Provença and the Comtat de Tolosa and all the territory up to Puy!"
Poem by gavaudan, senhors per los nostres peccatz, 1200 AD
@@pedritopedrito_
I dont understand why Spainiard Rewrite The history lmao...
Speacially Morocco one lmao
Japan also wanted to join the EC. Australia took part in Eurovision
We should've let Japan in
Next year is Australia last year
I don't think so, moreover it would be very inconvenient for the various presidents to come to Europe all the time
@@aabbccdd4710 200 million more people in the eu is a lot. Its the same reason Russia isn't in it. Its to much voting and political power.
@@GodboxGodbox what ?? Russia isn in it because it is a country full of warmonging idiots
It's important to note that Morocco did this after withdrawing from the African union in protest, and only joined back in 2017.
we turned off historical focuses😭
This is why I, as a European, love Morocco. They're bros. Everytime there's an African Cup of Nations, I'm rooting for Morocco. I was happy they made it to the World Cup semi-finals 2 years ago.
Cringe.
I hope it enters the EU
@@octavianpopescu4776 just because it's your budget holiday destination that doesn't mean Europe should accept it
@@elnino5114 I've actually never been to Morocco. I don't do holidays, I staycation to relax. Too much of a logistical and bureaucratic hassle for my taste... holidays. So, I don't know WTF you're talking about. It's obvious you don't know or understand anything about me. And I will continue to answer friendship with friendship.
@@octavianpopescu4776 U seem like a nice person actually. love your energy mate💙
as a moroccan am glad the country was not accepted int he organisation seeing what it is heading to and the conflicts it got involved into, morocco is now a free pivot state with strategical and equibilired relations with the east the west and the south.
all European countries are full of Moroccan immigrants who are fleeing the poverty of their country, fortunately Morocco has not joined the Union otherwise we would have had a Moroccan diaspora
I think that Morocco has a greater chance than Türkiye of joining 😂
@@uuuuuuuu-ko8cr nuh uh ur little
@uuuuuuuu-ko8cr please my morocco don't join european union
Nobody wants you in the EU neither , the EU has already passed laws to not buy any agricultural products from Morocco ever again 😂@@Rising-north-africa
We can still join Brics tho. But I don’t think both can join since they have very different cultures and history from the EU countries.
@@alidemirbas3722 u got rejected from brics already
As a moroccan ,i'm so happy that EU rejected my country from joining them ,we have a very diffrent lifestyle
all European countries are full of Moroccan immigrants who are fleeing the poverty of their country, fortunately Morocco has not joined the Union otherwise we would have had a Moroccan diaspora
A five minute video a'd you failed to mention the most important reason Morocco tried to join the EU which is Morocco's withdrawal from the African union after they recognized a a militia as a state
the fact that im moroccan and never heard of this is wild 😭🙏🏼
As a Moroccan, i find this funny as hell
As a french, I'm very likely in the minority, but if the moroccans, tunisians or algerians ever want to join the EU, I'd be fully in favor of opening the door.
@@marcbuisson2463 they need to be democracies
@@marcbuisson2463 I'm an Algerian atheist, but I rather my country be in an alliance of Arab states. Moroccans, Syrians, Palestinians, Sudanis and Egyptians are closer to me than any western people.
@@marcbuisson2463 I disagree, not because of Marrocco, but simply because it is already difficult for the EU to decide with 27 member states. Adding more will only make things worse.
First, the EU needs to figure out how to be more decisive, otherwise adding more members is a bad idea, no matter who the members are.
@@PosthumanProphet I'm a moroccan atheist lol, well while I see your point, I think if our countries were to join the EU we could expect better human rights laws and better quality of life in general. There won't be a sense of comradeship between us and westerners but it would probably still be a net positive for us. Of course it's a wild unrealistic idea tho.
Fun Fact : When Spain tried to join the EU, one of the criteria was to recognise... Israel. When i think about it, i wonder why Morroco wasn't accepted at least as a potential candidate.
All the arab world recognize Israel
@@akrammenaceur Morocco and Israel are very much allies
Recognising Israel has been one of the biggest errors Spain has made. Israel should not be considered a country.
@@gregorio360p not really, they only have relations, but comparing Turkish or Qatar or Emirats or Egypte relations to Israel are much stronger than relations with morocco
@@frederickcuse4750most don’t
After completing my A-Levels in 1988 I looked into Interrailing around Europe. The interrail ticket covered Western Europe, excluding the UK, Czechoslovakia, and Morocco down to Marrakech. I only had a British Visitors Passport, which was cardboard, was valid for a year and could be bought over the counter at a post office. Apart from EEC and EEA countries the BVP also covered Morocco.
Africans like to repeat this fact to convince themselves that Moroccans don't like being African even though:
- Morocco would have still been in the African Union and only sought this for economic reasons as its biggest trading partners were Spain and France
- Morocco today has the highest FDI into African countries out of all African countries
- the King constantly reminds the "South-South cooperation", "Africa first" policy of Morocco's investments
- The country announced it will finance infrastructurers to facilitate landlocked Sahel countries's access to the Atlantic
- Morocco's biggest allies in Africa are all subsaharian and not north african (Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia)
As a moroccan im happy than we didnt join the European union
Morocco being in Africa has absolutely NOTHING to do with the failure to access the EU.
While Morocco is a comparatively stable and solid country, it is not a democracy in the commonly accepted sense of the word. The EU's final purpose is that of reaching a complete integration, a federal republic of sorts. It is not possible to do so with a member that is a de facto absolute monarchy with limited women's rights and non existent LGBT rights.
@@idraote that, unfortunately, won't be fixed within the next decade or two.
As a queer Moroccan, this makes me very sad.
...turkey
you can say that, but most europeans don't want to go that far.
@@idraote No Morocco is not an absolute monarchy !
So, cam South Africa join the EU? It meets your criteria.
The Morrocan claim to Europeanness makes about as much sense as a Norwegian claim to Americanness based on Vinland
We never claimed to be part of Europe the application to the EEC was for economic reasons
@@mauri3853 why would a non European country be accepted in a European bloc? That’s like Spain applying to the African union (although this would actually at least make some sense since Spain does have territory in Africa)
@@luisfilipe2023I bet ur job is fishing
EU is a economic union, not a genetic one because West Europe isn't genetically similar to East or North Europe
@@R1b-S1194 an economic union... for europe
Very Interesting video, much love from Morocco ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think the main reason that Morocco was rejected for membership was because of their system of government being very different from modern European nations and their economy/standard of living being worse than Europe's. Their geographical location is the least of their problems.
Morocco is much better economically than the Balkans.
@@موسى_7 Not really.
@@موسى_7but not better then the majority of European countries, that's the main problem with you arabs and Muslims, "Always over proud of yourself" even the great Japanese and Chinese people aren't that confident and proud !
@@موسى_7 no
That' absolutely right.
It's application was based on the fact that as an imperial power Moorish dynasties ruled Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years. By the same login Italy could also apply to join African Union.
Southern Italy can
bullshit
As a moroccan I wouldn't want that to happen never
Europe has always been a moldeable term. It used to be Greece and its colonies, then it was all the lands under the Roman Empire, including northern Africa and definitely not the barbarians in the north. Then when the southern part of the Roman Empire (arguable southern Europe at the time) was lost to the muslims, what is now northern Europe was integrated through christianization and conquests. Then the Russians wanted to also be included when originally, what is now Poland and western Ukraine was the limit of "Europe".
Not to mention Anatolia, who would be 100% considered part of Europe if what is now Greece had not lost it.
And if Anatolia would still be Europe, the Levant would probably be as well. Especially Israel and Lebanon have very strong arguements to be European.
Oh and Georgia and Armenia want to be considered Europe as well, while definetly not wanting Russia to count as Europe.
@@KityKatKiller Why would Israel and Lebanon want to be european lol
@@KityKatKiller For sure. Egypt as well. If the Eastern Roman empire never fell, who the F would tell them "you are not Europe" bro they invented the word, the Greeks did, which are a core part of Rome.
The border with Europe would be the historical border between Persia and Rome in Irak.
That Denmark or Sweden or even Poland are part of Europe is weirder than Egypt or Syria, only Christianity and Islam cultural divide make seem "normal".
Also the whole mediterranean as part of a single continent makes sense. Sahara is a huge barrier compared to a trading enabler sea.
@@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER Huh? This is not a question of "want" This is just a logical point about the fact that the borders of what is considered Europe are relatively arbitrary and could easily include Levantine countries. The more western oriented obviously before the rest.
@@KityKatKiller The whole of geography is arbitrary. You have to start somewhere.
I was expecting one of the arguments to be that the EU (via Spain) has territories in Morocco like Ceuta and Melilla
spain is considered an european country and it has some territories in morocco but Ceuta and mallelia is considred from africa they have nothing to do with morocco joining EU.
@@AstralGamer12 but they're part of the EU which confirms that being part of Africa doesn't disqualify from joining the EU. So yes, it does have something to do with the topic of Morocco joining the EU
Any question you have about Moroccan foreign policy after independence can pretty much be summed up in two words: "Western Sahara". Everything Morocco does on the world stage is based around finally getting that issue resolved. It's why they applied for the EU, why theres so much tension with Algeria, why they recognized Israel, and why they commited troops to help the US in the Gulf War and the war on Terror.
Yeah Morocco wants to join the colonisers club so bad
@@Hardossful The colonizers are the ones who took that land in the first place and once they got kicked out they had to make sure to leave it in as much turmoil and choas as possible to make sure their former subjects always stay beamth them. A Sahrawi is just as much a Moroccan as a Riffi or a Shilh. The people who suffer most from all this is the actual Sahrawi people who have been brainwashed by their leaders to continue fighting against stability and live their lives as refugees meanwhile their leaders are living in multimillion dollar homes in France and pocketing all of that money the Algerians throw at them.
Ngl Algeria do be that annoying sibling that doesn't mind their business, like poliziario is not strong by any means but it keeps getting finances and weapons
i do hope we can see an eu expansion like this at some point, feel it would need to drop the european part of the name tho as the economic block changes and evolves over time
What the sea and nature separate cannot be brought together in one union. I believe that Albania, Bosnia and Ukraine are the closest to the European Union geographically.
And kosovo also..
It's not just an economic block
It's not only about the politics but also about the mindset of the Muslims people of Morocco... Europe is for European people...
I'm Moroccan BTW
Lmao in Morocco if a Muslim woman have relationship with a non-Muslim man,both will be punished.
لحاس
they ain't giving you a free visa by saying this,the islam has noting to do with living with non muslims,then why many europeans who move to morocco don't say this before they do huh ?why they don't say we are europeans,we can't live with muslims overe there in morocco?
@yassineuariste3488 there's a miniscule number of Europeans moving to Morocco compared to the number of Marrocans moving to Europe. Not to mention a lot of the Europeans moving to Morocco are actually Marrocans born and raised in Europe with European IDs and passports so they might be classified as Europeans on paper
@@anastasia.remanova7777 A moroccan named anastasia? Suuuure...
Morocco deserve to be part of the EU More Than Turkey
No
Well no, because turkey is a secular country, and in Morocco we still work with laws from the Desert (Islam I mean)
@@Croviajomorocco doesn’t use sharia law and you don’t have to be secular to join the eu
@@Croviajo Turkey WAS a secular country with Atatürk.. but no longer. Erdogan has made sure of that. Turkey is now as secular as Afganistan.
@@abelnicolaebaritone but still turkey is occupying a part of Cyprus, that's why it can't join the EU
Lol, I guess the majority of European countries can join the African Union because of their ties to the continent
that's just plain stupid, cause the whole point of the african union is to keep the european powers at bay,
while the eu has a very different purpose
Why would they join that useless union
Actually Cyprus is part of the eu without being a European country, just because of history, literally Cyprus is an asian country ( middle eastern) and when Morocco said , historical tirs to Europe it didn't mean colonization era , it meant since at least the roman times when Morocco was part of the roman empire, and in medieval times when Morocco literally ruled spain and Portugal for over 200 years or something like that , so it more of the history between the land which literally obvious, north Africa and Europe and the middle east share history together more than with sub Saharan Africa or asia , and its not the same as saying latin American countries can say that to join too , because yes some latin Americans are of european origins and some Moroccans too , but its about the history of being one nation for hundreds of years before medieval and in medieval times, and actually some people literally call the area greater Europe or something like which includes some parts of the middle east ( former roman land) and north Africa for its times and history with Europe, and also culturally north Africa ( Morocco Algeria tunisia ) are close to Spanish Italian Portuguese french cultures , and most of the people speak in dariga whi is kind , literally what Maltese people speak in malta , so its more of like , Morocco tried to say , listen we might be located in the african continent but most of our business history geopolitcs is in Europe so we want to be part of the eu, and actually dome countries like the idea such as Sweden, but some didn't like spain who was trying to be a member at the time and both spain and Morocco were kind of poor nations spain just removed or ended franco dictatorship, and tgey didn't like Morocco in the eu because both offered the same thing agriculture products, anyway im just trying to explain what i think the Moroccan government tried to say
@@itcalledfootball600 because it is the most resourceful union on the planet
@itcalledfootball600 it's not useless
According to a professor i talked the bid was made in order to get a status of advanced partner with the EU
The idea of limiting the EU to the continent is absurd!!! Its like saying you are a complete adult when you are older than 18 but an infant below that age. Or like saying you can only have lunch between 12h and 13h. Or like saying everyone above 185 cm is large and everyone below is a dwarf.
Who tell you that morocco try to join europe we dont want join it at all we are so happy like that
All of this history of European-North African cultural ties are nice background and all but the actual reason was to get back at the African Union for admitting the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as a member.
congratulations on 100 videos James. Also this is a crazy amount of comments
Because history matter viewers are being recommended this channel which he stole the format from
@@screamingseal4805 i mean the style isn't copyrighted or anything
They probably were just aiming to be a candidate state. This makes you eligeble for better trade deals. European market protectionism would be less of an issue.
Great video
morocco wanted to join EU after when he was betrayed by africain and accepted polisario in African Union and also he was betrayed by the arab ligue when egypte syria libya algeria also palestine im so sad who declared war against morocco because all of this arab are comunist and they cause de fall of the monarchi of many arab country and they wanted to do the same thing in morocco and divised morocco from his sahara
Big reason why they recognized Israel too is firstly because USA is a big ally of Israel and they want it to be recognized but also because Israel itself is a reliable ally that unlike many countries isn't allied with others already since many countries back Algeria ecc... also Morocco has issues with Spain too ecc.. so yeah people forget that the real world is harsh Morocco just doing what it gotta do
Wdym u mean declared war against morroco the only war I remember was when morroco invaded Algeria and got their asses kicked back to where they came from to a 1 year independent Algeria
As a moroccan living in the EU im happy they didn't join this sinking ship.
@@badmanthings 👍🏼👍🏼♥️
@@badmanthings what are you still doing in that sinking ship btw?
@@abrahamhamdi2725 Im leaving soon dont you worry.
to much moroccans in Europe
You are Algerian and you know that Algerians are ranked top 1 in immigration @@enigman1931
The map of Moroccan empire is false, Moroccan borders when Alaouite became rulers were Senegal in the South and Lybia in the Est
yes but it's not anymore, that's like saying Russia should extend to France because Tsar Alexander once managed to reach it. let's not be imperialist/colonialist that's very stupid. Morocco's borders are from the mediterranean to Mauritania and that's that.
@@JadenHawkins-ou5eq yes, but in the video we are talking about history, so when the map of Morocco in the 17th century in this video is false, I’m not talking about the 21st century’s map
What applies to turkey can be applied to Morocco as well
As a Moroccan, I wish to reassure Europeans that Morocco is in Africa and will therefore never be part of Europe. Greetings 👋
Very interesting
Add that Morocco shares geographical borders with the European Union. Spain still occupies two cities in Morocco, which are part of Spain, so Morocco already has borders with Europe.
Spain owns 2 cities in Africa not in Morocco they are not occupied.
@@gfyphg9871 No, this is an occupation. These are two Moroccan cities. Portugal occupied one and Spain one, and in the end both cities became Spain's.
@@gfyphg9871Ceuta and Melilla are occupied, and they're located in the North of Morocco
Melilla and Ceuta belong to spaniards as Spanish cities , both were Spanish centuries ago that Morocco become a Land in 1956 officially, shame on you and propaganda Alawi
@@smdafrica8335 Ceuta is an autonomous city of Spain and one of the several Spanish territories in Africa wich includes Melilla and the Canary Islands, and to tell you, in Wikipedia there is even the name in the Amazigh language, and they speak both Spanish and Moroccan Darija, and don't tell me it's because of Hijra siriya and all that absurd stuff, since the 10th century they were part of some north african dynasties like the Almoravid Berbers and Almohads, even the Tunisian Hafsids have taken control and finally The Marinids and the Fez in 1387, and as you guys can see, they're practically all Moroccan dynasties and just to tell you, before Sebta became a Spanish colony, it was a Portuguese colony until the treaty of Lisbon. To let you know, in 2007, the Spanish government visited the city for the first time since 80 years. Mellila has pretty much the same story but not with the Portuguese part, now shame on you bruv. Another thing, did you ever heard of a Spanish city having Eid Al Adha as an official public holiday, well Ceuta and Melilla did it in 2010 wich is another religious argument...
That is all well and good. But the video is tittled "why" did Morocco try to join the EU not "how".
EU is overrated , I'm Moroccan and I see this as a joke lol
Say the third world country LOL
@NoName-hg6cc
Mhm pretty sure that Morocco is Better than any Eastern European Countries but ok
@@mohamedred5746 Better? Lol no
@@هاجيميكاشيمو yeah but you still wanna come here haha !
NO NO NO NO NO.... SORRY WE DON T NEED EU ESPECIALLY AFTER THE COVID19 CRISIS !!!! AS MOROCCANS, WE NEED MORE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE US OR ASIAN NOT THE EUROPEANS... UK DID IT AND SAID BYE TO EUROPE AND ENERGY CRISIS WITH THE RUSSIAN WAR ....AND MUCH PROBLEMS .... NO NEED PROBLEM THANK YOU
People keep using the "But X country can participate in Eurovision!" argument as if that contest had anything to with the EU. Just because an organization has "Euro" in its name, it doesn't mean it's an EU organism. For example, the ESA, the ESC and UEFA are NOT affiliated with the EU at all
the sahara is moroccan please change the thumbnail and remove the line
I'm from Morocco and I don't want to join Europe lol
Ironically cyprus which geographically located in asia are part of EU.
What about Georgia too 💀
@@wakakabravo7998 they have greek heritage for over 1000 years also were crusade state for 100 years as well as Venetian till the 1700s. They speak Greek and are orthodox. For all intents and purposes they are one extra Greek Island. If it wasn't for... ugh... the T u r k s... bah
@@thescarecrow2710 racism ?
@@thescarecrow2710 everytime i go on the internet i see at least 1 person complaining about us because of some shit which happened centuries ago, why are you guys so butthurt about us all the time. literally rent free
@@thescarecrow2710 so does USA, canada, new zealand, australia and entire latin america.
Personally, if a country that is not on Europe but reasonably close to it and fulfilled all the requirements besides the geografical one I would be in favor of it joining the EU. It may make the name a bit inacurate but we can always rename it to European-Mediterranian Union if we want to be more accurate. Culturally it would make sense aswell. There are already many people hailing from the South Mediterranian here in Europe, which I have no issue with because the tension around the migrant issue is the result of an antiquated, unempathetic and inefficient migration system which is in dire need of modernization and extensive reform to process all these migrants and make legal immigration realistically achievable.
What is Algeria?
Morocco is closer to Western Europe than Israel, Turkey, Armenia and Georgia.
LOL Kazakhstan is also a member of Europe. 😅
Vive d'Algerie
When talking about imperialism, just glossing over the Moroccan invasion and occupation of Iberia.
I mean it was only eight centuries, easy to miss.
Did India tried as well ?
Interesting Video 👍
the alaouit map you shared is wrong (the map before colonisation).because at that time the sheriffian empire included todays morocco,todays mauritania,timbuktu and the moroccan eastern sahara which was taken by the french and added to today's algeria
yes and no if we are talking about before 1844 yes but after it morocco started to lose lands
@@ALMoZaxa Moroccans are so funny 🤣
It's literally mentioned in historical sources that the control of the alaouites was weak and didn't pass the the atlas mountains east an south for 95% of the the alaouite period and at times it didn't reach beyond the surroundings of the capital cities of fes and Marrakech which were considered two separate states by the way.
Making up maps will never change history.
@@BC-kc6em all sources says allouaits rules east saha and Mauritania and tmibtkto , you are the one funny here 🤡
the morrocan map before colonization was smaller than the one shown on the video. Pre colonial morroco was made of 2 small sultanates which are fez and Marrakech
@@hafidacheche5548
Lmao Tipical Tebbone Education sistem lmao
I am surprised by the respect I found in the comments, nor did I find any comments criticizing Moroccans (I don't know if you deleted the ones that said those things)
Just people trying to make the most out of life. ❤
There are if you dig deepb mostly just about the morrocan sahara
✡️ Tube censors delete them
Life is respect me I respect you
Meanwhile Spain: can I into African Union?
At least Spain owns territory on the continent of Africa
@@BoxStudioExecutive that’s was the point of the joke…
@@The_whalesdoesn't really make that much sense when Spain's case is stronger lol
Morocco is Actually ethnically Amazigh and Iberians
@@Ballondorak Moroccans aren't Iberian and Amazigh aren't European.
Somehow, you depicted Morocco's map inaccurately after its independence. Is this channel focused on history or is it politically influenced?
If Morroco Was part Of Spain, Maybe They Will Be Considered Europe
@@machocoder22aliastuftyshoe79 Spain was part of Morocco so yeah but who cares about Europe anyway hahaha from my position I see zero benefits other than reducing barriers while traveling instead of applying for Visas but that's an internal issue and could be solved later with more diplomatic ties
@@AtlasBit I know Spain Had Colonies in Morroco, I mean Morroco, As A Full Spanish Territory, Not a Colony
@@machocoder22aliastuftyshoe79 @machocoder22aliastuftyshoe79 it's the other way around If you read more Moors ruled large parts of the lberian Peninsula (modern-day Spain and Portugal) from 711 to 1492, a period of about 781 years
@machocoder22aliastuftyshoe79 I think you're confused Morocco ruled andalusia for a while that's why your andalusian culture is heavily influenced from Morocco if it weren't for france and Spain both infiltrating Morocco things would've been different wouldn't they
@@justburnedyoutube5607 wtf, Does That Have To do With What I said
Algeria:can I join American union
As someone not sufficiently educated on this to have a firm stance, my immediate reaction is that it seems like a missed opportunity.
Not really. Morocco is too culturally different. You can’t even have intercourse if you are not married. That’s not something common in Europe
@@daltongalloway So what, its an economic union at the time not cultural one.
@@daltongalloway you obviously have never been to the balkans, or turkey
@@daanwolters3751 Plenty of people have sex before marriage in the Balkans and Turkey.
@@daltongalloway you could argue the same between Russia and Ireland, they both have very different cultures
Morocco didn't want to join EU for they want to, but the real reason was to get on nerves of Spain and UK since Morocco has two cities and some islands still occupied by Spain and Spain has Gibraltar occupied by UK so Morocco's argument was if the two cities mainly located in Morocco africa are considered European then and by that logic Morocco should also be a part of the European union and of course Spain won't give up the two cities until UK give up back Gibraltar to Spain Morocco used this to show out how is Europe playing on two phases when it comes out to their political and geopolitical interests
Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco are part of the EU
@@almami1599 Ceuta and Melilla in Spain, fixed it😂
@@lordkfc1297 ruled by Spain but they obviously are in Morocco.. we are adults by now we should stop convincing ourselves by things we know to be untrue
@@almami1599 They are not in Morocco buddy, they are in Spain. Just because they border Morocco doesn't mean they are in Morocco xD.
You will be right when they are declared as colonies by the UN, until then they are both Spanish and on Spanish soil.
@@lordkfc1297 just because Spain rules don’t make them Spain things are not so literal and the UN isn’t the authority on sense, Algeria was never France because France said so and Angola was never Portugal
@@almami1599 It quite literally means they are Spanish pal, or is San Marino part of Italy just because it is surrounded by Italy?
Both cities have been Spanish since the 1500s, so they are Spanish, like it or not. And on this matter the world backs Spain because otherwise the UN would have added the cities to their list of territories pending decolonization xD.
"the UN isn’t the authority on sense" - The UN really IS the authority on this matter because every recognized country in the world has a say on it. And Morocco is free to try to change that, like they have been trying for decades.
Make an episode about Albanian independence
Perhaps the three North African countries (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) could join UEFA and, in the long term, become members of the European Union.
Absolutely not.
No.
why would we want to? at least as a Moroccan, I feel much more African than anything else. Don't need the EU to feel validated. Don't know about Algerians or Tunisians
I am from Algeria and I do not want to join Europe ask another country or ask Russia to join as Berlusconi wanted😂
@@Hephaestus-b5o
Integrating into the European community would offer Algeria and the Maghreb significant advantages, such as economic growth, increased investments, and access to European funding. This integration would enhance governance and foster cultural exchange. Following this, joining UEFA would elevate sports development, improve local club infrastructure, and attract more visibility and sponsorships. Ultimately, both steps could strengthen regional cooperation on various issues.
Looking back history asking the questions that keeps up at night
Britain should give Gibraltar to Morocco, just to fuck with Spain.
@@datdumbguy1067 re-Reconquista
Spain would just instantly trade it for their enclaves in Morocco
Just exactly like what the Austrian did when they gave Venice to France instead of directly giving it to Italy as a "Fuck You" gesture
That would be foolish. The whole reason for occupying it would be negated.
😂😂😂 WoW that would just be nuts.
It was fundamentally a political move. Hassan II did not expect the application to proceed formally and he did not try to have Morocco apply in 1984. He deliberately presented his arguments at a political meeting: the objective was to strenghten the economic and political integration of Morocco in the European space.
It seems, however, that the application proceeded anyway, and, as could be expected, was rejected by the Council on 1 October 1987, on the grounds that Morocco was not a European state (European Parliament, 1998). Note that the actual text of that Council decision is remarkably elusive: it is widely quoted but I have not been able to find it in the catalog of the Council archives.
Hassan II explained his strategy explicitly in an interview given in December 1988 in the French magazine Le Point (cited by Essebbani, 2008). After saying that he did not plan for Morocco to join the EEC because he was "not able to keep up" with the Common Market, the King said that his strategy was
to do a little bit like in artillery, the first shot has to be far away, as far away as possible from the target (...) so we just asked for integration.
Since then, Morocco has signed a free trade Association Agreement with the EU (signed on 26 February 1996, in force on 1 March 2000). In 2008, Morocco was granted "advanced status", which is basically a roadmap for ongoing and future Morocco-EU partnership on economic, social, political, and security issues.
Even Israel has ambitions to join the EU, I mean the EU let Cyprus join and Cyprus is only culturally European.
@@DrGrove yes greeks are romani
The geographic borders between Asia and Europe are all more or less arbitrary. Cyprus can be Europe and so can Israel. There's no strong reason to say the geographic border lies in the Bosporus Straight. It could just as well start at the eastern edge of Mesopotamia or go down the eastern border of Turkey. It's all on the same tectonic plate anyway.
@@KityKatKiller I get Cyprus, but Israel?
Letting 🇮🇱 join would be the worst mistake Europe made since allowing their slave trading ancestors into Rome ~400 BCE.
@@joshuafrimpong244 Again, there are no clearcut geographical borders. Purely from a geographical context it wouldn't be hard to draw the line at the end of the Mesopotamian valley, so roughly the Iraq-Iran border. It's all the same tectonic plate. Cyprus is not just culturaly European, but depending on the geographic definition you use also geographically. Just like all of the Levant and Iraq.
first complete the map of morocco then talk about it The area of Morocco is 710850 km
If you are american your country recognizes morocco's sovereignty over the moroccan Sahara
Because we are not very good at minding our business and not leeching off of Europe,what next Argentina joining the EU or something?
Well, if it weren’t for France, the Mercosur would close a very important free trade agreement with the EU. I’d argue Argentina (and Uruguay) are more likely to be accepted into the EU than Morocco lol specially with the current rise of nationalism and anti-Islam sentiments. Already millions of Argentinians have dual European citizenship, and still choose to live in Argentina. I’d imagine Morocco being closer and poorer (and lacking basic human rights) would mean a huge influx of migrants to mainland Europe, plus they wouldn’t be able to control the border with the rest of Africa.
@agme8045 right that's why I said Argentina specifically because it has strong historical and cultural ties to Europe which I'd argue are far more stronger than Morocco's since Morocco is still heavily influenced by Arab and Islamic cultures much like other North African nations which simply overshadows any relevant European influences,plus having a mainland African country join the EU whilst simultaneously being a member of the AU is confusing and awkward to be honest and Morocco's sever lack of development that is even lower than some Eastern European countries within the union,low HDI index and human rights as you mentioned would make it restricted from ever joining the EU from the get-go and this all coming from a Moroccan's prespective
@@RuffzSweatpants Western Europe has been leaching off most of the rest of the world for hundreds of years, the wealth it gained from that still funds much of European society today
@corvacopia true, but that's simply not the case with Moroccco in relation with modern day Western Europe as it's the other way around
The map of Morocco you showed at the beginning of the video is wrong. At the time morocco was mush bigger than that. If possible i would love if you fixed that 👍
Brooo why have you divided the map of morocco in the thumbnail??! And in the video there is no line i dont understand please fix it
Does this have something to do with Kaiser Wilhelm. I vaguely remember that the tensions that led to the WW1 had something to do with something going on in the Magreb region.
Al-Andalusional.
I missed her
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There were also strategic goals behind Hassan II's request to join the EU. Morocco ended up getting the advanced partnership status which granted it a bunch of trade advantages and aid money. So whoever thought this was funny/stupid/ridiculous doesn't understand that people sitting as the top of this kind of decisions know exactly what they are doing. Morocco might not be a democracy (as if all democracies were havens of prosperity and freedom) but it's always had a government/royal counsel made of elite thinkers and strategists.
The term "European" is meaningless because this term is used to group countries who share no history, geography, language and geopolitics. For example, Greece and Poland. Greece shares its history with other Middle Eastern and North African countries like Iran and Egypt and their geopolitical is tied to the Middle East and then Mediterranean. Poland is a Slavic country far away form Greece and they share no history and their geopolitics is tied to Russia.
Agreed. For better or worse, that is the nature of geopolitics.
Most do share a geography.
It is a geographical union in the continent of Europe, despite the difference in languages between the countries. Hungarian-Lithuanian is different from French.
Europe share a culture, History a geography
i from morroco
Roman civilization birthed Europe. So I don't see why in the future, north Africa can't join the EU. That is if they uphold all the criteria for joining, obviously. Human rights need to be guaranteed, democracy with all of its personal liberties, freedom of press and so on.
North Africans especially Arabs should stay out of Europe
Morroco more democratic than many European countries like hungary romania and russia
North Africa is also quite corrupt (much more than Eastern Europe) so until they fix that there's no way in hell they're joining the EU
yeah, with how the eu is doing right now, nope.
also, we definitly know that you secretly don't care about human rights or democracy or freedom of the press, why would we let your way control ours again after last time?
They haven’t been Roman for centuries 😂 they’re more culturally impacted by the Islamic world, who has controlled the area for hundreds of years
It was just a way to stick it to the UA because we left that organization. In the end it's just politics. Bless our king at the time, he knew how to stick it to people.
Also what you fail to point out is that Spain has 2 enclaves in Northern Morocco and it's still part of the EU. If being on African soil is the only obstacle to membership, then by default Spain should be excluded of the EU because of Ceuta and Melilla. Same for France that has control of multiple islands in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, and even in South America.
EU is far from reach to morocco however i can see morocco joining Nato it is already a big ally to Nato , and with tensions rising in north african region Nato might take a move(just like the case with turkey)
Morocco with Nato ? Not going to happen since Morocco consider ceuta and Melilla and bunch of islands occupied by Spain
@@mauri3853The Greeks consider Constantinople to be a Greek land under Turkish occupation...both in NATO.
@@Hephaestus-b5o As a Turk, Selanik is Turkish land under Greek occupation
It's actually what i'm thinking
First and Most important reason:
Money
Many european countries where poor at that time (if you compare them to other countries). The reason is simply the geography.
@@hardadouzakariae9540 I k what you mean but the reason Geography is sloppy like Greece should also join the African League maybe.
@@hardadouzakariae9540both of you are answering diffrent questions. Morocco isnt getting in the EU because its muslim.
The EU wouldnt add a big muslim country. Not HUGE Turkey & not either Morroco. They would get too much influence trough EU parliament.
And it probably would not even want to be part of the EU. Just a candidate. A candidate gets better trade deals (money), likely better acces to the european markets.
@@Breakfast.pancake
I know this also a reason.
This just mirrorise the failures of arabic countries leaderships to create an actual useful economic union even though we have more things in common than europe ever had
Morocco's foreign investment is 73.9% from Europe and only 19.3% Arab. The country has always been so much more economically tied to europe than it has the middle east. There's been too much turmoil and war in large parts of the arab world to allow them to ever become a serious economic force. Over half of the Arab population lives in countries like Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, and Sudan which are too torn apart by war to even be able to join a serious economic union.
@@kingdaymon6433 well why would go to the middle east just in magherb there are enormous missed opportunities for economic growth and jobs and the countries except libya are stable enough for that but the borders are closed the trade is almost nonexistent just to satisfy the ego of a bunch of rich "elites" from the both sides
@@mauri3853That's the tragedy of the century. If Morocco and Algeria weren't in conflict, we could be a superpower. Oh well
@@mauri3853 The feud between Morocco and Algeria really is a tragedy. They're brothers that got divided and permenantly seperated by the Europeans. They sit on 75% of the worlds phosphates and the 5th largest supply of natural gas, imagine what they could do with that if they had worked together since independence rather than fought over a desert.
Do not forget the role of the United States in encouraging the Europeans to establish the European Union to confront the Soviet Union and providing them with money in the Marshall Plan, unlike the Arab countries, where oil goes to America for free, and many times they were loyal to the Russians and against Israel.
If i was in Africa, I'd want to be in Europe too
I am in Africa and I don't want Europe
@@Hephaestus-b5o majority do tho unfortunately
4:26 cultural none historical yeah obviously of invading the continent😂, someone has to remind Mongolia to apply to the EU just because they invaded the continent hundreds of years ago
Solo se la pasan jodiendo en cualquier pais al que van y con todos sus vecinos, que pesados dios mio
@@lyonthespanishfox9686 Calm down my Spanish friend ,also nice pfp ,W Inazuma Eleven Fan 🇲🇦🤝🇪🇸
you describe any 3rd world people. In every country, there are the enlightened people, and non enlightened people
bro is still sour over the 800 years lol
Spanish women love us 😂😂 poor virgin spaniard
@@kingawesomes4320Relax Muhammad, go pray to Allah for a better quality of life lol.
It's an economic alliance, and since morocco trades a lot with europe, it makes sense for them to join
Lmao in Morocco if a Muslim woman have relationship with a non-Muslim man,both will be in trouble.
Honestly, of all the ridiculous countries try to join such regional memberships, Morocco in the E.U isn't that crazy, heck they still border Spain through Ceuta and Melilla. If they give up the claims on those territories and strengthen the Constitutional powers of the state(long shot) I can see a world where an application goes through.
This request wasn't really taken seriously by the Moroccan government it was mostly to test the water not a serious request
Marocco is already part of the EU, but we call it "Paris" instead.
The only thing i dislike about morrocco is the immigrants (because of trauma) and that you are forced too keep your pasport