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Morocco: Over 140,000 students migrated from private to public schools

During this school year, 140,250 students moved from private to public schools compared to 52,000 last year, Moroccan Education Minister said. This exodus is partly triggered by the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on households’ revenue as well as the low quality of private school teaching. Minister Said Amzazi said that 68 private schools had […]

The Fed Up, the ECB Down: Time to Endow the ECB with a Level Playing Field

After years of loose monetary policy, with 0.5 percent interest rate and three consecutive waves of quantitative easing (QE), including buying US$ 85 billion per month of Treasury bonds (T-bonds), Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Fed’s board of governors, announced in May the Fed’s intention to commence tapering its asset purchase program. The Fed’s […]

Attacking Morocco will not restore European Parliament’s credibility

The European Parliament has exposed itself as a corrupt institution full of hypocrites’ intent on outsourcing the blame to clean themselves even at the cost of undermining what used to be a privileged partnership with Morocco. The anti-Morocco resolution- adopted last month and wrongly sugarcoated in press freedom and human rights concerns- is but the […]