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The Spanish government approved an additional €30 million grant to help Morocco fight illegal immigration, smuggling and human trafficking. The announcement was made by the spokeswoman for the government and acting Spanish Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, at a press briefing after the Council of Ministers held Friday July 19. The €30 million amount is […]
Spanish fishing trawlers will return to the Moroccan waters as of Monday, July 22, announced Spanish Minister for Agriculture and Maritime Fisheries, Luis Planas, in a statement released by his department. The meeting of the first joint commission of the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement, held in Rabat, this week defined the technicalities to issue the […]
Three suspects who pleaded guilty to the murder of a Danish and Norwegian backpackers in the mountains near Marrakech received the death sentence while a fourth man will spend his life in prison. The ringleader and two other terrorist ring members had told the court that they decided to commit the abject terrorist act in […]
L’Agence Française de Developpement will extend Morocco a loan of €50 million and a subsidy of €1 million to secure access to drinking water in the Northern provinces of the Kingdom. The related agreement was signed Wednesday in Rabat by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the National Office of Electricity and Water (ONEE). The […]
World leader in home appliances, Bosch, signed a memorandum of understanding with Morocco’s industry ministry to create an industrial cluster in Morocco to supply its plants in Europe. The new Bosch suppliers in Morocco will help create 2000 jobs and achieve an export value of 1.6 billion dirhams in 2023, said Morocco’s industry ministry in […]
Set on modernizing its army, Morocco is showing interest in acquiring submarines, Portuguese defense minister said. “Morocco is interested in developing sub-marine capabilities. We will work together with Morocco in that regard,” said Joao Gomes Carvinho following talks with Minister delegate in charge of defense, Abdellatif Loudiyi in Lisbon. The Portuguese official said that the […]
The Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADEH) has raised with the Basque government the cases of Moulay Abba Bouzeid, Fadel Breika and Mahmoud Zeidan, who were abducted lately by the polisario militias. In Bilbao, the Sahrawi NGO met with officials from the autonomous government and a representative of the Madrid central government. […]
Morocco has strengthened its position in Africa as a rising power thanks to the vision of King Mohammed VI, writes French magazine Le Point on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the rule of the Moroccan monarch. In an in-depth issue, the magazine dedicated 14 pages to take stock of the developments that took […]
Morocco has always been a locomotive of EU relations with its southern neighborhood, from the very first Association Agreement to being the very first country to benefit from the Advanced Status, foreign minister Nasser Bourita said. Speaking to EU information website Euractiv, Bourita said relations between the European Union (EU) and Morocco are now part […]
Since 2014, more than 2,800 scholarships have been awarded by the European Union to Moroccan higher education institutions within the frame of the EU Erasmus+ program which supports education, training, youth and sport in Europe. Erasmus+ funds academic mobility and cooperation projects with partner countries. It has enabled Moroccan students to learn different teaching systems, […]