Morocco exported 89,000 tonnes of fresh blueberries during the 2025-2026 campaign. Its advantage: supplying Europe at a time when supply remains limited. But Egypt is accelerating during the same months, Spain is weighing on prices in spring, and China is gaining ground in Russia.
A European reform could make it more difficult for Moroccan fruit and vegetables to access the EU market. Yet, after meeting European professionals in Agadir, Morocco’s sector is displaying another ambition: adapting to the new requirements and selling more abroad.
While traveling in the Philippines at 39 weeks of pregnancy, a Moroccan woman and her husband decide to fly to Vietnam to give birth. Their son is born a few hours after she is admitted to hospital, where doctors discover two complications they must treat.
MoroccoFollowing reports of rats, cockroaches, mosquitoes and other pests in several neighborhoods of Casablanca, municipal officials are calling for a change in approach. They want to intervene before residents file complaints, rather than afterward.
SpainAfter the deadly rush toward Sebta , some Moroccan families are facing a new ordeal: recovering the bodies. Relatives of victims say they are being asked for around 2,500 euros to repatriate a body to Morocco.
MoroccoTanger Med was not yet open when the Spanish press was already worried about its consequences. Twenty-three years later, the Moroccan port has overtaken Algeciras and its name continues to be associated in Spain with the same words: rival, competition, threat.
WorldMorocco passes the American budget transparency test, unlike Algeria. In its new global report, Washington considers that Rabat meets its minimum requirements, while Algiers remains among the governments that do not comply with them.
BelgiumTUI is considering reducing the number of aircraft based in Belgium in response to the increasing burden of aviation taxes. The threat concerns an important market for Moroccan travelers: the airline currently serves nine cities in the Kingdom from Belgium.
MoroccoTwo declarations submitted to the same United Nations database give radically different figures for 2025: $380.75 million in Israeli imports on the Moroccan side, compared with $115.75 million in exports to Morocco on the Israeli side. A gap of $265 million remains to be explained.
MoroccoIn Morocco, 21.7% of businesses identify the practices of their informal-sector competitors as their main obstacle, compared with 15.7% for corruption, according to the World Bank.
MoroccoMorocco is home to 343 invasive alien species. Their potential economic impact could reach $2.47 billion per year, according to a study that, for the first time, quantifies their cost across the Kingdom.
WorldA prisoner at a maximum-security prison in the Netherlands wanted to continue calling his wife and children during their holiday in Morocco. Impossible: following a change in the law, temporarily going abroad can be enough to cut off these calls.
FranceEmployed on a permanent contract as a heavy-goods vehicle driver, a Moroccan man wanted to change from the status of spouse of a French woman to that of an employee after his divorce. His employer submitted four work permit applications. All of them were closed. The prefecture ultimately refused him residence and issued him an OQTF.