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Sebia, a French world leading medical firm, opened in Dubai its first office in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Arabia Business reports. Sebia said it has established its distribution and marketing office in Dubai to support distributors in the Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan. Dubai Science Park (DSP) is the choice for the world’s leading […]
Spanish football club, Valencia FC, has opened an academy in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh to train young players, local coaches and share its professional soccer experience. This new project will feature different programs for young players and will be based in different cities in the African country, beginning with the first location in the […]
Morocco was maintained in the EU’s tax haven grey list but could soon leave it this year as it implements reforms to conform to EU standards. The grey list includes countries which are given time to reform their tax regimes and improve fiscal transparency. Morocco could leave that list pending on the results of an […]
Italy is on the verge on selling two FREMM frigates to Egypt as relation between the two countries are improving. The talks for the sale of the two vessels, in the pipeline for some time, have been confirmed by Italy’s Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, and by Fincantieri CEO, Giuseppe Bono, Defense News reports. The […]
Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska hailed Morocco’s cooperation, which helped his country to reduce by 50 pc the arrival of illegal migrants. At a meeting held Monday in Madrid with vice-president of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas and Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson, Mr. Fernando said prevention policy works. He affirmed that his country […]
The European Union will launch a new naval and air mission in the Eastern Mediterranean to stop more weapons from reaching the warring factions in Libya, foreign ministers agreed on Monday. The agreement was reached after Austria lifted its veto. “We all agree to create a mission that blocks the flow of arms […]
Lawyers for Equatorial Guinea told United Nations judges Monday that French authorities illegally seized the central African nation’s embassy in Paris as part of a money laundering investigation on the son of the country’s president. On the first day of hearings, before the International Court of Justice, Malabo’s lawyers insisted the six-storey mansion at 42, […]
The Polisario last week gave another proof of its totally flawed perception. Faithful to its tactics to proclaim imaginary diplomatic victories in the Sahara issue, declared to great trumpeting and chest beating that a “Western Sahara inter-group” was set up at the European Parliament. The news was of course relayed by the Algerian news agency […]
The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources signed a new agreement with the Egyptian Holding Company for Natural Gases “EGAS” and the German company Wintershall Dea to search for and produce oil and natural gas in eastern Damanhur area in the Nile Delta with a minimum investment of $43 million and $11 million grants […]
The European Union and Morocco share the same determination to further develop their economic and trade partnership, notably through a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement. This shared determination was expressed by European Commissioner for Trade, Phil Hogan, and Moroccan Minister of Industry & Trade Moulay Hafid Elalamy, at a meeting held Friday in […]