Air China will now market the Istanbul–Marrakech route under its own code through an expanded agreement with Turkish Airlines. The Chinese airline is thus adding the Moroccan city to its network without opening a direct flight to the kingdom.
A Moroccan woman has been contesting for three years the refusal of the visa she requested to visit her husband in the Netherlands. The court has now authorized the Dutch ministry not to disclose the profiles used by its application-analysis algorithm.
Italian MEP Ilaria Salis challenged Sebta’s belonging to Spain and the European Union before the European Parliament. She considers the city a “vestige of European colonialism.”
A Moroccan-Dutch man sought reimbursement from his wife for the integration courses she took in Morocco before joining him in the Netherlands. The court applied the Moudawana and rejected his claim for 4,724 euros.
The European Parliament wants to make EU funding and preferential access to its market conditional on effective Moroccan cooperation on border control and readmissions. This political pressure is set out in a resolution adopted following the Ceuta crisis.
The European Commission is preparing an overhaul of the Schengen Visa Code for 2027. Possible additional fees, simplified procedures for some travellers and faster sanctions against third countries: the options under consideration could directly affect applicants in Morocco.
A chocolate flan preparation made in Casablanca has been added to the FDA’s red list. The reason: its label in Arabic, French, Spanish and Dutch does not reproduce all the mandatory information in each of these languages.
The US military is preparing a new contract for tactical radios for its foreign partners. More than 43,000 systems are being considered. Morocco is already among the countries served by the current contract awarded to L3Harris.
The European Commission wants to establish an exceptional mechanism allowing asylum procedures to be temporarily tightened and expulsions accelerated in the event of mass arrivals. The Ceuta crisis is to serve as a reference for this future mechanism.
A former bank account in Morocco and €6,000 paid by his sons led the authorities to deny social assistance to a heavily indebted man. Faced with the risk of the entire family being evicted, the Dutch courts have nevertheless just ordered the provisional reinstatement of the benefit.
Prince Moulay Rachid and 29 companions dined at a restaurant in Pelham, near New York, whose staff initially did not know the identity of its main guest. The prince arrived in a convoy of black SUVs, after a reservation made only two hours earlier.
On the run for three years, Oussama B. was arrested on Wednesday at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, a few hours after leaving Morocco. He had just been sentenced to more than eleven years in prison for his role in preparing the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum.