Journal of Education, Arts and Humanities https://www.watchpub/jeah/index.htm EUROPEAN UNION DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN THE SOUTH OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: CASE OF MOROCCO Ghazali Bello Abubakar. Center for African Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, INDIA. Article Info: Author(s): Ghazali Bello Abubakar. History: Received: 28-09-2014 Accepted Date: 05-10-2014 Vol 2 (3), pp, 42-49 October ,2014 Corresponding Author: Ghazali Bello Abubakar. Center for African Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, INDIA. E-mail: alghazel@gmail.com Mobile: +919582076405 Article Type: Review ISSN 2315-9829 Abstract Prior to the political waves that hit North Africa, for many decades, Morocco has been facing numbers of external pressures over the questions of peace and political transition, human rights, and transparency. Additionally, the historical linkages and relationships of the kingdom of Morocco with the western world including United States of America serve an outstanding remark towards transforming the country into her current political dynamism. It is a big task, and of course, could not be that easy for country such as Morocco to abruptly surrender the oldest package of an absolute hereditary system of sultanate to embrace a new system other than the original version of her own in an overnight manner. Instead of total recast of the ruling style in the country, an abnormal circumstance might impose some oddity changes time to time, but perhaps not at once. The relationships and bulky foreign aids that Morocco normally receives from international donors, such as the European Union and other individual states once have gone down due to many reasons including human rights abuses, forced disappearances, tortures, illegal operation in Western Saharan territorial bondage, etc. Keywords: Democracy a Natural Being of EU, EU and Democracy promotion in the Maghreb sub-region, EU-Morocco: Partnership and Neighbourhood, EU-Morocco ‘Action Plan’, The ‘Advanced Status’ in promoting Moroccan Democratization. INTRODUCTION End of the Cold War and the fall of Berlin Wall remain among other pressuring forces toward the dawn of new age of democratic transition to take place in the kingdom of Morocco. This marked a new entry of democratic gesture in many parts of the world too. Moroccan authorities launched what could be seen as a sketch map; lying down strategic outlines for democratization. The strongly centralized hierarchic style has steadily started taking a new direction. It started becoming a parliamentary system in evolvable and systematic motion. Hence, the palace found its efforts dormant without maintaining the stable political atmosphere. Therefore, paying more attention to the political groups with mutual understanding has been among the most important agendas while attaining sustainable transition for bright future of Morocco. At the same time, the monarch believed in „divide and rule‟ tactics. It was a wave of change; it was the time when most of the people become more conscious and aware of what surround them not only in Morocco but in many parts of the world. Many countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and elsewhere adopted a democratic system give up old version of their systems, which could not fulfilled basic necessity of the peoples‟ rights. In 1980s, Morocco has once tried to acquire European Membership, which was turned down by the Commission because of the reason of not being European country. Morocco is a big trading partner of the EU, France and United States. The 2011 region-wide pro-democracy demonstrations seem to be the biggest threat that serves warning notice for the latent democratization process of Morocco. Contemporarily, the European Union is one of the most powerfully strong and reliable regional organizations in terms of democracy promotion especially in the third world countries. The Union is regionally intergovernmental body that stands on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, which has been developed and consolidated in the framework of the Union‟s external relations. However, this Union carries the slogan of succeeding in favouring fast democratization in three countries during 1970s and 1980s: Greece, Spain and Portugal, and recently the Central Eastern European Countries (CEECs) through its main central instrument of conditionality and incentive for membership. Nowadays, the Union continues applying the strategy of incentive for membership towards the candidature of Turkey and Croatia (Baracani, 2005).