One out of every four kilometres of the roads built today in Morocco is financed by the EU funds allocated for the transport sector. Through the programme that supports reforms in the sector, according to the information published on the ENPI site (www.enpi-info.eu), the EU supplies aid to projects for road and maritime transport, as well as the port and airport systems, for which Morocco has already signed the Euro-Mediterranean treaty, with the reciprocal opening of the markets (Open Sky).The EU therefore contributes to diverse initiatives beginning with the development of motorways, for example the enlargement of the Casablanca-Rabat, a north-south axis, on which work will conclude in 2011, o the new connection between Fez and Oujda, which started work in 2007, lengthening the Rabat-Meknez-Fez, creating a east-west axis. Next year work on the Marrakesh-Agadir motorway is scheduled to finish. Moreover, the European partner in encouraging Morocco's government to change the rules of road circulation, giving an incentive to the safety factor. In total, between 2003 and 2008, the EU's contribution to the entire transport sector in Morocco was 96 million euros.
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