The day after the appointment of the new Moroccan government , Washington, Paris and Madrid sent their congratulations to the new team led by Aziz Akhannouch. They all expressed the wish to see bilateral relations strengthened with the kingdom.
Spain continues to play appeasement with Morocco. Journalists from the Spanish public channel TVE have been barred from participating in a professional trip to the Tindouf camps, during which their colleagues from other media will have to interview the leader of the Polisario, Brahim Ghali , at the origin of the recent diplomatic crisis between the kingdom and its northern neighbor.
Faced with the arms race in which Morocco and Algeria have been engaged for a decade, and especially considering Morocco’s rearmament, Spain has decided to increase its military budget by 7.87% compared to last year.
Alfonso Galobart, a distant relative of the Spanish royal family, and his fiancée, Patricia Fabré, have chosen the city of Marrakech to tie the knot. Nearly 300 guests from all over the world will attend this wedding and the festivities that will take place over three days this weekend (from Saturday to Monday).
Before the transfer of power between Saâdeddine El Othmani and his successor Aziz Akhannouch, the outgoing Prime Minister had signed a decree of expropriation for public utility. Among the victims of this expropriation are the El Khattabi, a family representing the symbol of the Riffian resistance against the Spaniards.
While Spain is preparing to reopen the Sebta border on October 10, the Moroccan authorities have not set a date for the moment. The population is impatient, while the local economy is suffering.
The former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, declared during her appearance before the judge that the entry into Spain last April of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, had been done in a "discreet" way to avoid the anger of Morocco.
In Spain, the Popular Party (PP) has lambasted a poll on the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, carried out by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS). It is demanding "explanations" from the government of Pedro Sanchez.
The Popular Party (PP) has chosen to constantly attack Sánchez’s government and support Morocco in the crisis that has opened between the two countries after the entry onto Spanish soil of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front.
The Civil Guard has launched a large-scale operation to dismantle a Moroccan hashish trafficking network called "operation Limoneros". In this context, 400 agents were deployed on Monday in the provinces of Seville, Huelva, Cáceres, Badajoz, Toledo and Murcia.
The Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Melilla (CEME-CEOE) has requested on Tuesday a legislative reform to prevent Moroccans born in the autonomous city or who have already legally resided there for ten years from obtaining Spanish nationality.
The police of the Central Office for the Repression of Major Financial Delinquency (OCRGDF) dismantled a vast money laundering network between France and Morocco, via Spain. At the helm, a Chinese who collected the cash from cannabis trafficking to reintroduce it into the regular economic circuit through purchases from Chinese wholesalers in Aubervilliers.