The Sino-Moroccan alliance does not seem to please the Algerian neighbor. The local press is firing on all cylinders at the regime, blaming it for its inaction in a "hyper-strategic" file for the country’s future.
Germany has granted Morocco an envelope of 1.387 billion euros, including 202.6 million euros in the form of grants as part of Moroccan-German development cooperation, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad.
As part of strengthening the partnership between the European Union and Morocco, the European Commissioners for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, and for Neighborhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, are on a working visit to Morocco. Among other activities, a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, is planned.
The project of the maritime line between the Spanish enclave of Melilla and Algeria is gaining more and more support. After the president of the port authority, Victor Gamero, the representative of Melilla’s business leaders is calling on the Spanish authorities to support this Oran maritime line project.
The free trade agreement signed in 2004 between Rabat and Ankara has created commercial instability in Morocco and destroyed thousands of jobs. This situation is causing outrage among industrialists, who are now demanding a new agreement.
The convention on cooperation in security and the fight against crime between Morocco and Spain is a reality. It was adopted on Monday by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
The Moroccan and French Ministers of the Interior agreed, on Friday in Rabat, on the need to strengthen security cooperation between the two countries. This was during Gérald Darmanin’s visit to Morocco.
The first Moroccan seasonal workers were welcomed at Bastia-Poretta airport last Friday, followed by the second wave on Wednesday. They are not ordinary travelers or tourists, but are in Corsica to harvest and prune in the clementine fields of the Island of Beauty.
The French Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in charge of Foreign Trade and Attractiveness, Franck Riester, made a working visit to Morocco from October 11 to 12. In an interview, he analyzed the issues related to trade ties between the kingdom and France.
Access to the Moroccan market is simplified for confectionery and plant-based products made in Russia . A single certificate is now sufficient.
Air Algérie is struggling, notes the Algerian president. As a solution, Abdelmadjid Tebboune wants a change in the management of the company, in order to make it competitive internationally, particularly vis-à-vis Royal Air Maroc.
Spanish investors are preparing to seize the opportunities offered by the Moroccan market. This is thanks to the recent decision by the government to ease the conditions for foreign professionals to access the national territory.