
Moroccan Workers Rank Second Among Non-EU Contributors to Spanish Social Security
A total of 268,749 Moroccans were registered with the social security in Spain at the end of last July.

A total of 268,749 Moroccans were registered with the social security in Spain at the end of last July.

In a diplomatic crisis with Spain for several months, Morocco has expressed its desire to warm up its relations with its northern neighbor. However, King Mohammed VI sets conditions.

Morocco is willing to resume cooperation with Spain. King Mohammed VI expressed this willingness on Friday in his speech on the occasion of the Throne Feast, with, however, a few conditions.

The AZD7442 treatment from the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca has shown its effectiveness in preventing Covid-19. The laboratory conducted the trials in Spain, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the United States.

A Spanish girl, kidnapped by her family to prevent her from seeing her Moroccan boyfriend, was freed by the police, alerted by the latter after the victim informed him of her situation.

A 27-year-old Spaniard was arrested and placed in pre-trial detention for assaulting a Moroccan and running over several people with his car near Zaragoza. He is accused of assault and battery and reckless driving.

Many Moroccan minors continue to wander the streets of Ceuta. Despite the difficult living conditions, they are not interested in returning to Morocco and are determined to stay in Spain or to come back by any means if they were to be repatriated.

While a Spanish court has temporarily suspended the repatriation to Morocco of Moroccan minors from Ceuta, Fernando Marlaska, Minister of the Interior, still holds to it.

The return to Morocco of the minors who arrived in Ceuta in May has increased the tension within the Spanish government. The Podemos party accuses the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, of having engaged in these illegal collective returns of minors without involving his counterpart in charge of Social Rights.

Spain’s return of the minors with Morocco’s agreement is proof that the restoration of relations between the two countries is on the right track.

The young Morad, 16 years old, was part of the group of 15 minors from the Santa Amelia sports center repatriated on Sunday to Morocco. But he remains determined to return to Spain as soon as possible to build a better future for himself.

A Spanish court suspended on Monday the repatriation to Morocco of a group of minors who arrived in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta during the migratory wave recorded last May. The justice thus grants the request of two NGOs who had requested the blocking of the expulsions of twelve young migrants who had sought their help.