General Fernando Alejandre Martínez, former Chief of the Defense Staff, believes that Morocco does not currently represent a direct threat to Spain and denounces the Spanish government’s policy of "turning its back on Morocco".
The president of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Melilla (CEME-CEOE), Enrique Alcoba, believes that the pandemic "has been the perfect excuse" for Morocco to achieve its goal of "economically suffocating Ceuta and Melilla".
The Vox party has denounced "the economic blackmail and demographic pressure" of Morocco which "prepares and organizes the assaults at its convenience". It also accuses the Spanish government of not properly fulfilling its mission of protecting the borders.
The Popular Party (PP) is about to ask the government to undertake legislative reforms to allow migrant minors to return to Morocco.
Vox remains convinced that Morocco wants to stifle Ceuta and deplores the passivity of the government. It has just sent it a question to ask what actions it intends to take to counter "Morocco’s latest initiative", the commercial zone under construction a few kilometers from the border with the autonomous city.
The Vox party continues to denounce the passivity of the Spanish government in the face of Morocco’s "attacks" on Spanish territorial integrity and its intention to annex the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
The Vox party has tabled a bill in Congress asking the government to take the necessary measures to proceed with the delineation of the borders in Ceuta and Melilla in order to properly delimit the Spanish territorial waters in these areas near Morocco.
A 23-year-old Moroccan died on Friday after falling from underneath a truck. He had left the Tarajal (Ceuta) warehouses since December to apply for political asylum.
The legalization of cannabis is a "breath of fresh air" for Morocco and an economic alternative to smuggling in the border areas of Ceuta and Melilla, according to the Moroccan Institute of Strategic Intelligence.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has just extended for one month, until March 30, 2022, the closure of the border with Morocco due to the health crisis.
Over the past nine months, more than 2,500 Moroccans have applied for asylum in Spain. 360 have been deported while nearly 10,000 others have "voluntarily" returned to their country, according to Spanish authorities.
The Spanish Senate on Thursday rejected the proposal by the Vox party to amend Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty to explicitly include the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla under NATO protection .