Spain fears that the new President of the United States, Joe Biden, will maintain the decree recognizing American sovereignty of Morocco over the Sahara. This is at least what the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reveals.
The Spanish government has decided to keep the border posts between Morocco and Ceuta and Melilla closed until March 31, 2021. The postponement of the opening of the border crossings between the two cities and the kingdom is due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Spanish government has asked the European Commission to ensure compliance with the trade agreement with Morocco , said Fernando Miranda, Secretary General of Agriculture and Food, on Wednesday.
The ship of the Royal Moroccan Navy "Raïs Al Mounastiri" and the Spanish Navy ship "Meteor" carried out a joint naval patrol exercise in the Strait of Gibraltar on Wednesday, February 17.
Considering that the public prosecutor’s office had "hastily" examined at the end of October the case of Iliass Tahiri, the 18-year-old Moroccan who died on July 1, 2019 at the Tierras de Oria juvenile center in Almeria, the justice system has decided to reopen the case.
The Spanish National Police arrested three people, including a woman, at the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat airport. These outlaws were transporting more than four kilos of Moroccan hashish hidden in their bodies.
The last statue of the former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco erected in Melilla was taken down on Tuesday, February 23, following a proposal supported by the Coalición por Melilla, Ciudadanos and PSOE parties.
What business opportunities with Morocco ? This was the focus of a videoconference organized by the Andalusian Agency for the Promotion of Exports (Extenda), which was attended by about a hundred Andalusian operators.
Ill-intentioned individuals vandalized and burned, in the early morning of Sunday, February 21, the Assafwa mosque, in the heart of the San Francisco neighborhood in San Javier, where there is a large Muslim community. The local police managed to extinguish the fire with fire extinguishers.
The president of the autonomous city of Melilla , Eduardo de Castro, said in an interview on Sunday radio that relations with Morocco "are tense" due to the latter’s unilateral closure of commercial customs, and the difficulties of entering goods through Malaga and Almería. He called on the central government and the European Union to "ease these tensions".
In the vegetable sector in Spain, the company Frutas Azahara, led by a family of Moroccan origin, holds a prominent place. Arriving in Spain in the 1990s with little means, they have managed to emerge by revolutionizing the Spanish vegetable sector, which was embryonic at the time.
The Spanish government is accused of lying about the situation of Samir, a Moroccan currently in a coma since he was the victim of a traffic accident in Ceuta.