Former French Education Minister Najat Vallaud Belkacem "finds it distressing that international issues have only been addressed from the angle of migration" in the presidential campaign.
Homosexuals and irregular migrants are among the people who have suffered the most during the state of health emergency. This is revealed in a report by the Civil Council for the Fight Against All Forms of Discrimination.
In 2020, some 68,900 Moroccans became European citizens, or 10% of all nationalities granted in the EU.
A candidate for the presidency, Eric Zemmour has made proposals that are rather shocking on immigration. He proposes in particular the creation of a "Ministry of Remigration" and the deportation of "100,000 undesirable foreigners per year".
Santiago Abascal, leader of the Spanish far-right formation Vox, took advantage of the debate on the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday to compare the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI , to Vladimir Putin.
The Directorate of Studies and Financial Forecasts (DEPF) has recently published figures on Moroccan travel in 2019. It appears that Morocco is the 5th country in terms of volume of Schengen visas issued.
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 50% reduction in the granting of visas for Moroccans and Algerians and 30% for Tunisians is "a great initiative" of the French government aimed at solving the problem of immigration. This is at least what Eric Dupond-Moretti has affirmed, who regretted the figure of 25% of foreigners in French prisons put forward by certain presidential candidates.
A virtual conference organized by the Maroc du Patrimoine Foundation allowed the writer-journalist Mohamed Seddik Maâninou to review the different stages of Algerian migration to Morocco .
Presented at Fipadoc 2022, "The Life Ahead of Us" tells the previously unknown story of several thousand Moroccans who worked in the mines in France. 80,000 miners who "gave life to 600,000 French people". For director Frédéric Laffont, making this history known was necessary to understand French society today and all its components.
The Belgian Council for Alien Law Litigation (CCE) opposed the expulsion of the Moroccan Abdallah Ouahbour, recognized however as a "threat to society".
For the whole of 2021, the French consulates in Morocco issued 69,408 visas to Moroccan nationals, a figure down 29.6% compared to 2020.