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A group defending the interests of Moroccan farmers, COMADER, denounced the attacks on trucks exporting Moroccan fresh produce in the EU. Videos on social media showed angry Spanish farmers taking aim at Moroccan trucks loaded with tomatoes heading to the UK market. “We express our concern following the recurrent and unjustified attacks on Moroccan products […]
An announced visit by Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares to Algiers never took place, due to what Spanish media ascribe to the conflicting agenda of Tebboune. According to analysts, the visit could have signaled a rapprochement between the two countries after Algiers protested at the sovereign decision of Madrid to back Morocco on the […]
EU Commission chief has pledged more than €210 million to support Mauritania manage migrant flows and clamp down on human traffickers, which comes amid growing concerns in Brussels that the recent decision by Niger’s junta to repel an anti-migrant law could lead to an increase in migratory flows to Europe. Speaking during a recent visit […]
Spain has officially reaffirmed that the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for the Sahara, presented in 2007, is “the most serious, realistic and credible basis for the resolution of this dispute” and underlined the importance of Sahara issue for Morocco. This came in a written response by the Government to the question asked at the congress by […]
Ways to bolster cooperation between Morocco and Spain in the realms of security and intelligence were reviewed at a meeting in Rabat Tuesday between, Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, and Spanish Commissioner-General of Information, Eugenio Pereiro Blanco, who is currently on a working visit to Morocco at the head of […]
Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska this Friday commended cooperation between Morocco and Spain on migration, describing this cooperation as “exemplary”. “Cooperation between Morocco and Spain is exemplary. We have been close, reliable, and loyal partners for a long time,” the Spanish minister told the public television channel TVE. In January, the Spanish official made his […]
After a diplomatic spat between Algeria and Spain over the Sahara, which lasted nearly 15 months, the Algerian ruling junta realized that their blackmail strategy and gas weaponization have failed and changed course. After swallowing their bitter defeat, they sent back their ambassador to Madrid in a humiliating diplomatic and economic debacle without succeeding to […]
In a reference to Laayoune as a Moroccan city, the Spanish official gazette has reflected the official position of the country in support of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. The Spanish official gazette had in August cited Laayoune in a text, in a move that shows Spanish commitment to its 2022 declaration in which it […]
The United Kingdom should support Morocco’s Autonomy Plan offering a workable solution to the Sahara issue, says a leading UK defense and security think-tank. The Moroccan Autonomy Plan “remains the only credible, lasting, realistic and constructive solution” to the Sahara conflict, says a report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Following a paralyzing impasse […]
Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has renewed his country’s determination to further develop its relations with Morocco in all areas. “Our objective is to continue to make progress in our economic relations, to strengthen cooperation in areas such as the fight against terrorism and the mafias that traffic in human beings, and […]