The European Union has provided Morocco with more than €8 billion over the last five years.
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No source found states the claimed figure of 'more than €8 billion' for EU financing to Morocco over the last five years; the claim's exact magnitude does not appear explicitly in any located source.
The closest official figure for the same five-year window is the European Commission's bilateral (grant) allocation to Morocco for 2021-2025 of approximately €1.15 billion, which covers grants only and excludes the low-cost loans the MEP also invokes.
The EIB states it has mobilised 'over €12 billion' for Morocco since 1979 (i.e., over 47 years), while its 2025 disbursements to Morocco (a record year) were only €210 million; this makes a five-year aggregate of €8 billion difficult to reconcile with the documented loan flows.
The claim mixes EU budget grants (fondo perdido) with EIB/other lending (financiación a muy bajo coste) and does not specify which instruments or which five-year reference window are being aggregated, so the scope cannot be matched to a single published statistic.
The EIB and Commission sources retrieved were published in 2023-2026; the MEP (session date 2026-09-15) could have known data up to that date, but no pre-session source with the €8 billion figure was located.
Sources
PrimaryEuropean Commission – Morocco country page (DG MENA)EU assistance to Morocco is primarily funded through the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe (NDICI-GE) for the period 2021 to 2027. The EU bilateral allocation to Morocco for the period 2021 to 2025 amounted to approximately €1.15 billion.
SecondaryMorocco World NewsThe European Union reinforced its strategic partnership with Morocco in 2025 by providing €233.4 million (MAD 2.48 billion) in budget support.