"The only stable country in the region is Morocco, basically because democratic reforms had started here a lot earlier," said the article’s author Andreas Geiger.

     Only a few weeks ago, the riots started in Tunisia and Algeria and they are spreading now to Egypt and Jordan, Geiger recalled, highlighting that the region’s instability might reinforce other threats in the region, notably the illegal immigration and Al-Qaeda’s terrorist activities.

    “The Maghreb situation is a paradise in development for Al Qaeda,” he pointed out, warning that the terrorists do “not only find a huge breeding ground here now, but also a perfect base for ‘shoot in and out’ operations to Europe.”

    He also underscored that “both the U.S. and Europe […] have to figure out which countries in the region, by force of stability and shared political and strategic commitments, could be their new partners.”

     Recently, the Hudson Institute, an International think tank and public policy research organization said that Morocco, with a centuries old cache, enjoys a unique stability in its regional environment.

     In the same vein, the US channel Fox News pointed out that Morocco's political stability is a model worth considering amid the radical transformations in Tunisia and Egypt.