Ceuta Seeks Economic Reinvention as Border Trade with Morocco Halts

The coalition will propose to the plenary session of the Assembly the design and execution of a reconversion plan for the Tarajal merchants who, with dialogue and participation of the owners and public-private partnership, will make it possible to relaunch activities in this field with new projects integrated into the new production model to be implemented in Ceuta.

The merchants consider that the city cannot remain indifferent to this reality and that it must find a way to "reorient" these infrastructures and put them at the service of the "new economic model" that Ceuta is trying to implement (digital industry, transition energy...), "with the help of the owners".

The economic crisis raging in the autonomous city continues to be a major concern, both for the actors in the most sensitive sectors of the population and for the social partners and public institutions. For Caballas, it is devastating to see the commercial premises "closing" one after the other. But the situation of the Tarajal commercial spaces worries even more "because of its volume". From an "effervescent" economic activity, with 230 shops operating "at full capacity", they have become a "deserted area where no one passes anymore", where only about twenty shops continue to open their doors.