The European Union Court heard on Tuesday the arguments of the company Eurosemillas, specialized in the production of selected seeds, which is requesting the annulment of the Community plant variety protection for the protected Nadorcott mandarin variety, owned by the Moroccan royal family.
Moroccans were the most naturalized in Europe in 2022. This is revealed by the public agency, Eurostat, which recently published its statistics on naturalizations.
The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, denounced on Monday the recent attacks by European farmers against shipments of Moroccan fruits and vegetables, noting that the European Union (EU) benefits more from the EU-Morocco agreement than the kingdom.
Moroccans, Schengen visa applicants, should spend more money to obtain them. The European Commission is considering raising visa fees to 90 euros (980 DH) for adults and 45 euros (490 DH) for children.
Spain will become more dependent on Morocco to feed its population within a decade, warned SOS Rural, highlighting the perverse effects of the drought on the Spanish agricultural sector and massive imports of Moroccan fruits and vegetables.
Some 431,000 migrants, including 31,000 Moroccans, were expelled from the territory of the European Union (EU) in 2022, according to a recent Eurostat report entitled "Migration and Asylum in Europe 2023".
Spanish farmers continue to denounce the facilities granted by the European Union (EU) to Morocco to import tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables into the community market.
The European Commission has just confirmed the discovery of a shipment of grenades from Morocco infested with the False Codling Moth, a pest previously unknown in this region considered free of this threat.
Malta fears the tax advantage of the Tanger Med port due to the introduction of an environmental tax in European Union (EU) countries starting in 2024. Major shipping companies may turn to the Moroccan port.
Moroccan tomatoes have surpassed Spanish ones in the EU in 2022, with a volume of 740 million kilos exported, mainly to France, compared to just over 600 million for Spain.
The Coordination of Peasant and Livestock Organizations of Andalusia (COAG-A), through the voice of its general secretary, Miguel López, denounced on Friday the "hypocrisy" of the European Union (EU) in the face of the entry of Moroccan fruits and vegetables containing the pesticide chlorpyrifos, banned in the EU, and which is "scientifically proven to cause breast cancer".
Since July, there has been information circulating on social networks that Moroccan olive oil "can enter any country of the European Union" without "customs duties". A facility that dates back 11 years, since the signing of an agreement between the EU and Morocco.