Former Spanish minister María Antonia Trujillo has reiterated her position on Ceuta and Melilla, and stated that "freedom of expression and information is more protected in Morocco than in Spain".
Migrant arrivals from Algeria on the coasts of Almería, Murcia, Ibiza and Formentera have fallen by 36% this year, contrary to the alerts from the Spanish intelligence services that announced an increase in the migratory flow from this country due to the change in Spain’s position on the Sahara.
The Spanish police have dismantled in an industrial area of Fuenlabrada (Madrid) a criminal network dedicated to financing drug trafficking in Morocco and the rest of Europe. In total, 32 members of this network, including the leader and his lawyer, were arrested.
The Spanish Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, spoke on Friday about the quality of relations between his country and Morocco , stating that the kingdom is a "loyal and cooperative" partner.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, clarified his country’s position on the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, stating on Thursday before Congress that these two territories definitively belong to Spain.
Spain has reactivated the project for a submarine railway tunnel connecting it with Morocco in the Strait of Gibraltar. The two countries have been studying this project for more than four decades.
Spain hopes for the reactivation of the Maghreb Europe gas pipeline (GME) suspended by Algeria for a year, due to diplomatic tensions with Morocco.
The Spanish Ministry of Justice has initiated procedures for the "urgent" repatriation to Spain of a truck driver from Seville, suffering from cancer and serving a one-year sentence for drug trafficking in the local prison in Tangier.
Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) will not send reporters to the Fisahara film festival being held this week in the Tindouf camps (Algeria), the channel’s management has announced.
The Moroccan government has just signed a loan agreement for an amount of 95 million euros with the Spanish bank Santander to finance the construction of a patrol vessel by the Spanish company Navantia.
The purchase and sale of housing in Spain by foreigners, including Moroccans, increased by 52.7% in one year, reaching 72,987 transactions. During the first half of this year, nearly 80,000 purchase-sale transactions were carried out by foreigners, according to data from the General Council of Notaries.
The Spanish police have dismantled a major hashish trafficking network from Morocco, based on the coasts of Cadiz and Malaga, with ramifications in other Spanish communities. In total, 21 people were arrested and 296 kilos of marijuana and 80 kilos of hashish were seized.