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Morocco’s exports to Spain increased by 6.7% in the first seven months of 2018 compared with the same period last year, the EU statistics office said. Morocco’s imports from Spain grew by 7.8% while its imports from the EU followed a similar rising trend at 7.1 percent, the source said. Morocco’s exports to Spain consisted […]
Public funding alone is not enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) said participants in the Global Forum organized Tuesday in Marrakech by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), FAO and EU. They also called on international financial institutions to leverage private investments to tackle global challenges in food and agriculture. The […]
Moroccan OCP Group, the world’s largest exporter of phosphates and a leading global phosphate plant nutrition player, and Fertinagro Biotech S.L., a Spanish company which manufactures and supplies a wide range of plant nutrition solutions, have completed the acquisition by OCP, through one of its subsidiaries, of 20% of Fertinagro’s shares by way of a […]
Spain has returned to Morocco dozen migrants who forced their way on Sunday to the Spanish occupied enclave of Melilla in the Northern African kingdom. A total of 208 migrants entered Melilla on Sunday after climbing over two barbed wire fences which separate the tiny territory from northern Morocco. One migrant died in the crossing. […]
The French Alten Group, specializing in engineering and technology consulting, inaugurated a center dedicated to automotive engineering in Rabat last week. This new phase of its development in Morocco will include two training programs and professional integration. After the opening of the “Automotive and Aeronautical Embedded Systems” branch in Fez in May 2017, the Alten […]
Migration topped the agenda of a meeting between Interior ministers of Morocco and Spain Abdelouafi Laftit and Fernando Grande-Marlaska who both stressed on Saturday in Madrid the need for promoting legal migration as Spain became the main gate for illegal crossings to Europe. The Spanish minister told the press following the meeting that both countries […]
The European Union has agreed to increase its financial support to Morocco to €140 million, as proposed by Spain. The decision was made during the EU Summit of Heads of State and Government held on Wednesday and Thursday. The EU will contribute at least €140 million from EU funds’ to Morocco for the management of […]
The European Union can solve the problem of migration only in collaboration with Morocco, a country to which the EU grants a tiny part of the aid earmarked for the fight against illegal migration. The statement was made by Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell in a hearing before the Joint Committee of the Congress of […]
A Tunisian military aircraft crashed Wednesday into the Mediterranean during a military exercise involving 10 other countries bordering on the sea. The Defense Ministry of the North African country said the pilot was unharmed as he was able to eject safely before the aircraft, an F-5, plunged into the sea. The pilot was rescued by […]
The European Union looks forward to enhancing its cooperation with Morocco to combat illegal migration, which is increasing on the Western Mediterranean route, said on Monday in Luxembourg EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini. Speaking at a press conference following the Foreign Affairs Council meeting, Mogherini said that Central Mediterranean migration route has gone down […]