Migration pressure towards Spain is intensifying despite the efforts of the Spanish authorities to contain it. During the month of September, the city of Almeria welcomed 1,371 migrants transported on 112 small boats, almost double the figures of 2020. At the beginning of the week, the Spanish security forces prevented the arrival of nearly 400 migrants.
A stinging setback for Vox at the Defense Commission in Congress. The far-right party’s bill on the protection of the cities of Ceuta and Melilla by NATO did not garner enough votes. It was rejected on Wednesday by the majority of MPs.
The President of the Andalusia Council, Juanma Moreno, asked the Spanish authorities on Wednesday to "protect the interests of the Spanish fishing fleet in Morocco", following the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to annul the fisheries and agriculture agreements between the EU and Morocco .
Brahim Diaz could be on the list of players selected by Luis Enrique for the Nations League to be held in Italy from October 6 to 10. The Moroccan-born striker of Real Madrid on loan to Milan has had a golden opportunity to be part of the Spanish national team.
Morocco risks encountering difficulties in securing gas supplies on October 31, the date on which the concession contract for the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline expires. The kingdom is already looking for an alternative with Spain.
The Civil Guard is looking for a man who stabbed his roommate, a 35-year-old Moroccan, during a fight that occurred on Wednesday morning in Callosa de Segura (Murcia region).
The former Minister of Defense and former President of Congress stressed, during his intervention at the Ceuta Economic Forum, the need to maintain good neighborly relations with Morocco and to resolve the Sahara conflict, which, according to him, does not go through a referendum.
The European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down its ruling on Wednesday that annuls the fisheries agreement between the EU and Morocco. Spain, whose fishermen are the most numerous to operate in Moroccan waters, will be the most affected by this decision.
Moroccan security forces prevented this Wednesday hundreds of young people and minors from entering Ceuta, thus avoiding a new migration crisis after the one that occurred last May.
While he was in Kenitra to visit his family, Ismail, a young Moroccan living in Barcelona, was violently assaulted by a group of individuals because of his sexual orientation.
The judge of the National Court, Santiago Pedraz, has canceled the subpoena of the last witness in the case of torture allegedly suffered by the Sahrawi activist Fadel Breica in the Tindouf camps led by the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali . He will deliver his verdict in the coming days.
The public prosecutor’s office of the National Court considers that the repatriations to Morocco of the minors who arrived en masse in Ceuta in May are "null and void", because the legally established procedure in this matter has not been respected" and that they "violate the fundamental right to effective judicial protection" of minors.