Spain has reduced its gas imports from Algeria by 42% in the period from January to July and has increased its purchases from Russia by 15.6% after the Russia-Ukraine war, according to the latest data from Enagas published in July.
Algeria has appointed Saïd Moussi as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to France on Wednesday. Previously posted in Madrid, the diplomat was recalled in March for consultations, in reaction to Spain’s change of position on the Sahara.
Residence permits in the European Union issued to third-country nationals including Morocco almost reached pre-pandemic levels in 2021.
The Civil Guard intercepted on Tuesday in Punta Almina (Ceuta) a boat registered in Morocco that was transporting 17 bales of hashish weighing 600 kilos. The two crew members, Spaniards, were arrested.
The government delegation in Melilla assured on Tuesday that the Civil Guard has not detected the presence of any Moroccan patrol boat in the waters near the autonomous city.
The national police of Ceuta arrested on Tuesday a man who had kidnapped and held five Moroccan migrants and a woman of the same nationality hostage in a house in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the autonomous city. He was remanded in custody.
After taking note of the psychiatric medical expertise ordered by the court, the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Rabat decided not to prosecute the Spaniard who had burst into the emergency room of the Cheikh Zaid hospital in Rabat in a white Dacia.
Spanish air traffic controllers reported on Tuesday on Twitter the special coordination with their Moroccan counterparts to urgently transport a critically ill baby from the Canary Islands to Madrid.
The maritime service agents of Ceuta rescued at sea a 25-year-old Moroccan migrant who crossed the strait with a float from Morocco. He showed signs of hypothermia.
The Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, indicated that, according to the technical reports of the National Cryptology Center (CCN) under the National Intelligence Center (CNI), it is "impossible" to know what data was extracted from the mobile phones of President Pedro Sanchez and the ministers, hacked using Pegasus between May and June 2021.
The manager of the Náutico club in Castrelo de Miño in Galicia (northeast Spain) expelled a customer for the "xenophobic" remarks he made towards a Moroccan employee.
Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) have returned to Morocco after a few weeks of vacation. Spanish ports are ready to welcome them as part of this second phase of the Marhaba Operation. The Turkish agency Anadolu went to meet them.