The engineering company Grupotec has decided to close its office in Morocco and strengthen its presence in Europe, particularly in Spain, where it has major projects under construction and in development in the renewable energy sector.
Spain has been recording high temperatures close to 46°C in recent days, caused by heat waves coming from Morocco . The situation should continue according to experts.
The Spanish government wants to demand that Morocco respect the agreement reached on April 7 in Rabat, at the end of the meeting between Pedro Sanchez and King Mohammed VI. It threatens to go back on its decision on the Sahara to end tensions with Algeria.
The airline Ryanair risks canceling flights operated to Morocco again. This is because the USO and SITCPLA unions, representing cabin crew in Spain, are planning a six-day strike.
Spain’s foreign policy in North Africa is not conducted solely in Madrid. It is strongly influenced by the United States. This is evidenced by the role played by Washington in Spain’s change of position on the Sahara.
The National Intelligence Center (CNI) has alerted the Spanish government to the massive arrival, in the coming months, of migrants from Algeria. Can the country exert migratory pressure on Spain?
Spain admits that the protocol service did not carry out the usual checks of the room where the iftar organized in honor of Pedro Sanchez during his visit to Rabat in April was held, to find that the Spanish flag was upside down.
The Spanish justice system has sentenced three brothers, members of a terrorist organization based in Badalona (Barcelona), to eight years in prison for the death of a young Moroccan whom they indoctrinated and who died in a bombing in Syria while fighting alongside the Islamic State.
The Vox party has demanded before the Senate "the revocation of the border reopening agreement until Morocco formally and expressly recognizes the undisputed sovereignty of Spain over Ceuta and Melilla and all Spanish territories in North Africa".
The Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction (JIRS) of Nancy has managed to dismantle a cannabis trafficking operation between Morocco and Spain and seize 1,300 kilos of cannabis. In total, five people were arrested, three of whom were placed in pre-trial detention.
Abderrahmane Tahiri (known as Mohamed Achraf), Mohamed El Gharbi, Abdelah Abdesalam, Karim Abdesalam and Lahcen Zamzami are Moroccan jihadists who continued to indoctrinate during their prison stay in Spain. The justice wants to prevent one of them, Achraf, from being released from prison.
After two years of suspension due to Covid-19, the traveling international exhibition "Al Omrane Expo Marocains du Monde" has resumed its tours to meet Moroccans of the world. On Saturday, it made a stopover in Madrid.