Spain cannot maintain relatively open and regularization-friendly migration policies at home while expecting Morocco to shoulder the full burden of preventing irregular crossings into Ceuta and Melilla. The mass influx into Ceuta last week has exposed the contradiction at the heart of Madrid’s approach. Domestic pull factors generated by Spanish decisions helped fuel the surge, […]
The Dutch national team manager has brushed aside Morocco’s football association’s call to enroll 17-year-old Dutch-Moroccan player Mohamed Ihattaren to play for the Atlas Lions. Morocco’s new manager Vahid Halilhodzic has included the PSV Eindhoven midfielder in the national squad for the September friendlies with Burkina Faso and Niger but it is uncertain the player […]
US House lawmakers have blocked a $450 million emergency aid the Obama administration was planning to give to the new government of President Mohammed Morsi, facing unprecedented economic crisis, with an estimated budget deficit of $12 billion. Republican Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, chairwoman of the Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, says “I am not […]
