Moroccans constitute the largest foreign community residing in the Balearic Islands, ahead of Germans and British. From around 3,860 in 1997, the Moroccan population has been multiplied by nearly 10, currently reaching a little less than 30,000 people.
The police arrested a Moroccan who locked himself in a room at the Son Llàtzer hospital in Palma, with his wife and their newborn inside, threatening to self-immolate and set fire to the maternity ward.
Morocco bought cheaper energy from Spain in 2022, saving 575 million euros, according to sources in the Spanish sector.
Morocco’s joint candidacy with Spain and Portugal to host the 2030 World Cup will certainly contribute to strengthening cooperation between Rabat and Madrid, whose relations have been in a state of light and shadow since Spain’s change of position on the Sahara in March 2022.
A Melilla resident recently denounced a discriminatory situation at the Moroccan border. According to her statements, Manuela noticed that Melilla residents were no longer required to have their passports stamped at the border, which prompted her to go to Nador accompanied by a friend, Malika, also a Melilla resident.
The Court of First Instance in Madrid has rejected Morocco’s defamation complaint against journalist Ignacio Cembrero who accused the kingdom of spying on him with the Israeli software Pegasus.
The Civil Guard arrested a 37-year-old Moroccan man who kidnapped a woman in his apartment in the coastal town of Gijón (Asturias).
The strengthening of military cooperation between Morocco and Israel is causing concerns in Spain, particularly among the military who fear a disruption of the balance in the western Mediterranean.
The new patrol boat acquired by Spain for the Civil Guard does not seem to meet expectations. Announced a month ago as the fastest in the world, it is in reality less fast than that of Morocco.
The spokesman for Vox in the Andalusian parliament, Manuel Gavira, expressed his disagreement on Wednesday with the proposal by the president of the Cádiz Hotel Association (Horeca), Antonio de María, to recruit Moroccan seasonal workers to make up for the labor shortage in the sector in Cádiz.
Not surprisingly, Moroccans were the most naturalized in Spain in 2021. This is revealed by the public agency Eurostat, which recently published its statistics on naturalizations.
To address the labor shortage in the hotel industry and cope with the high demand during the next summer season, the president of the Cádiz hoteliers’ association is asking the government to organize the recruitment of Moroccan seasonal workers as it does for the berry harvest.