Worried by a surge of migration attempts from Libya, Italy reactivated a Gaddafi-era friendship deal with Libya promising to offer billions of euros in aid. The 2008 deal was revived by Italy’s new populist government offering $5 billion in aid for the reparations to Libya to stop migrants sailing across the Mediterranean. Enzo Moavero Milanesi, […]
Finance Minister Alkilani Abdelkarim al-Jazi has warned that the blockage of oil ports should come to an end as soon as possible because the finances of the state have begun to feel the effects. Oil is Libya’s major revenue and the siege on ports and oilfields especially in the east have almost brought production to […]
There were 67,848 Moroccans who have acquired EU citizenship in 2017, making them the first group followed by Indians and Albanians. France, Spain and Italy, traditional destination for the Moroccan diaspora, gave their citizenship to 83% of the new Moroccan-EU citizens. Separately, Spain said earlier this month that 25,372 Moroccans received the Spanish nationality in […]
