Nadia El A.
This Wednesday, December 9, the law against separatism, renamed the law strengthening the values of the Republic, was presented in the Council of Ministers. Kamel Kabtane, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Lyon, reacts on the issue.
Fayçal Cheffou is one of the three suspects in the March 22, 2016 attacks for whom the Brussels Chamber of Council is invited to pronounce a dismissal. He came forward to clear his name and regain his lost innocence.
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU have welcomed the European Commission’s proposal to revise and modernize the Visa Information System (VIS). The two bodies reached a provisional agreement on Tuesday.
The American startup Soluna Technologies and AM WIND plan to build a 900 MW wind farm in Dakhla, on an area of 11,313 hectares, to power servers dedicated to blockchain technologies. An initial investment of 15 billion dirhams will be dedicated to the project.
The Turkish food distribution company BIM is considering opening 35% of its Moroccan subsidiary, BIM Stores Maroc, to the firm Blue Investment Holdings. Discussions are advanced between the two parties.
Moroccan workers authorized to work in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla are calling on the Spanish Prime Minister and his Moroccan counterpart for help. Faced with unemployment and precariousness since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, following the closure of land borders, they are seizing the opportunity of the Spanish Prime Minister’s visit to the kingdom to draw attention to their situation.
The Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) is on a tour of the 12 regional councils to develop its post-Covid response strategy.
Kénitra benefits from the extension of its Industrial Acceleration Zone (ZAI). The agreement was signed by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Green and Digital Economy, Moulay Hafid Elalamy and the Director General of the Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion, Abdellatif Zaghnoun, on Tuesday in Casablanca.
The number of national film shoots carried out in Morocco in 2020 is known. According to data from the Moroccan Cinematographic Center (CCM), box office revenues in the 7th art sector will fall by 25% by the end of the year.
In the first quarter of 2021, the Bank of England will implement an Islamic deposit facility. The announcement was made on December 2 by Andrew Hauser, Executive Director of Markets, and published on the Bank for International Settlements website.
Moroccans take care of 30% of the cost of education, twice the OECD average, said the Minister of National Education, Saaid Amzazi , on Saturday, December 5. To help households and the state facing several budgetary challenges, the minister has suggested innovative financing solutions.
On the initiative of professionals, the Marrakech Convention Bureau (MCB) has just been created, in order to set up a strike force for this segment. The MCB benefits from the support of the Regional Tourism Council (CRT), the association of travel agents in the region (ARAVMS) and the association of Marrakech hoteliers.