The inauguration of the Moroccan School of Political Studies will take place on 14 March 2013 in Rabat.

Mr Pietro MARCENARO, Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Mr Eneko LANDABURU, European Union Ambassador to Morocco, as well as Mr Zoltán TAUBNER, Director of External Relations of the Council of Europe will take part in the ceremony.

The inauguration ceremony will be followed by a conference on the theme “Challenges and limits of deliberative democracy”.

The School of Political Studies of Morocco, the second such School in a non-member State of the Council of Europe, was created with the financial support of the EU/CoE Joint Programme “Strengthening democratic reform in the southern Neighbourhood” and the Norwegian Government.

Draft Programme (FR)