Madrid is preparing the official request that would allow Ceuta and Melilla to join the European customs union. Spain’s foreign minister refers to a procedure lasting one to one and a half years. At Morocco’s border, the change still depends on the unanimous agreement of the 27 member states.
Morocco is expected to harvest 93 million quintals of cereals this year. For 2027, Bank Al-Maghrib is basing its forecasts on a return to 50 million quintals. Under this assumption, economic growth would slow from 4.4% to 2.9%, despite an expected recovery in non-agricultural activities.
In a study of 300 adults in Casablanca, nearly one in three female participants was classified as physically inactive, compared with fewer than one in six men. Yet the women surveyed reported spending more time on housework and childcare.
FranceAt 18, Yassine is giving up returning to Morocco this summer. He is working at a warehouse in Toulouse to save around 2,000 euros. An amount that has become insufficient in the face of the tightening financial conditions imposed on foreign students in France.
MoroccoCasablanca will take out a loan of nearly 444 million dirhams to acquire 350 buses currently held by Alsa Al Baida. A substantial portion of this sum will first be used to settle the operator’s related bank debt.
FranceA 40-year-old Moroccan woman and mother of six has been placed in a detention center after reporting to the police station for her mandatory check-in. Her deportation to Morocco was even scheduled for the following day before being halted when she fell ill.
MoroccoUp to 100 dirhams to sit by the river and 20 dirhams to park your car. A consumer association denounces the prices charged in Ourika and, above all, the appropriation of natural areas that are normally accessible to the public.
FranceA Moroccan man was refused renewal of his residence permit and issued an OQTF. The prefecture notably considered that his Spanish wife had neither an employment contract nor her own resources. Yet she had been working for several months, with an income of around 2,000 euros.
SpainA French couple is stranded in Ceuta after crossing Morocco with their seven-month-old baby. Spanish authorities have taken the child away from them, suspecting that the baby may have been purchased in Morocco. But the story put forward by the parents could completely overturn the case.
MoroccoAir Algérie still carries more passengers than Royal Air Maroc. But as soon as one looks at the distances travelled, the strength of the African network , current capacity or punctuality, the comparison takes on an entirely different complexion.
MoroccoDrug barons, fraudsters wanted in the United States, kidnapping suspects or fugitives carrying forged papers: arrests are multiplying in Morocco. Since the beginning of the year, around thirty people wanted by Interpol are believed to have already been intercepted there.
WorldTwo and a half years after opening a tiny 18-seat café in Philadelphia, Moroccan Soufiane Boutliliss is moving to a completely different scale. His new restaurant can accommodate around 120 customers, with cuisine that remains deeply connected to Morocco.
FranceAfter arriving in France to join her French husband, a Moroccan woman left the marital home five weeks later. The prefecture revoked her right to stay and issued an OQTF with a two-year ban on returning. The courts have just annulled the entire set of measures.