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The author argues that Morocco’s membership application to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1987 involves an identity issue, whereby King Hassan II justified Morocco’s European-ness according to article 237 of the Treaty of Rome. He did this by instrumentalizing the hybridity that had been created between the French and locals during the French Protectorate through an emphasis on respect for Islam during the tenure of Resident General Hubert Lyautey’s between 1912 and 1925.
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European Coal and Steel Community, European Economic Community and European Atomic Energy Community were the three pillars of the European Communities, that were later associated with the 1965 Merger Treaty. European Economic Community was turned into European Community in 1993 Maastricht Treaty, that also became a pillar to the European Union, with Common Foreign and Security Policy and Justice and Home Affairs.
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Ipek, V. (2020). Introduction to the King’s European Morocco. In: North Africa, Colonialism and the EU. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29589-9_1
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