France’s Morocco reset: What French PM Lecornu’s visit to Rabat signals
The high-level underscores Morocco’s growing strategic importance as France seeks to rebuild its influence across North Africa [Alain Jocard/Pool/Reuters]For Morocco, renewed French engagement could accelerate investment in sectors central to its long-term economic ambitions, including transport infrastructure, renewable energy, advanced manufacturing, defence industries and digital technologies.
Rabat, Morocco – French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s first official foreign , a two-day trip to Morocco on July 15–16, marks the latest step in Paris’s effort to consolidate its diplomatic reset with Rabat after recognising Moroccan sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara.
The high-level meetings, covering defence, security, economic cooperation and investment, come after one of the most difficult periods in modern Franco-Moroccan relations.
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