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Morocco and Spain resumed cooperation to facilitate the crossing of 3 million Moroccans living in Europe by sea during the summer. The operation, dubbed Marhaba 2022, was halted for two years due to the pandemic amid tensions between the two countries that broke out last year. A joint statement issued following the landmark visit of […]
Spain is committed to foster its energy cooperation with Morocco, spokesman for the Spanish government Isabel Rodriguez said, after the start of the reverse flow of gas using the Maghreb-Europe pipeline. Spain had announced few days ago that it will start pumping gas- bought by Morocco in the international LNG market- using the pipeline, much […]
The cooperation agreement, signed in February 2019, between Morocco and Spain to fight all forms of crimes and terrorism, has come into force starting this Saturday, April 30, 2022. Under the agreement, the two countries’ authorities will cooperate in combating kidnapping, drugs & human trafficking, illegal immigration, sexual exploitation of children, as well as the […]
The Algerian regime has fallen in its own trap when it unilaterally decided to shut down the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME) to cut off the flow of gas to Morocco. However, the GME pipeline is used as of this week to supply Morocco with gas coming from Spain in reverse flow. “Morocco will be able […]
In a swift response to the statement made by the unpopular Algerian president Abdelmajid Tebboune criticizing Spanish support to Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara, the Spanish foreign ministry hits backs affirming that its stand on the Sahara is a “sovereign decision”. By recognizing the autonomy plan presented by Morocco as the “most serious, realistic […]
Starting this April 12, ferries will start carrying passengers again between Morocco and Spain after a halt that lasted two years because of Covid and diplomatic tensions. Cars will be transported between Spanish ports and Moroccan counterparts starting April 18, according to Spanish ports agencies. The measure was announced last week in a joint statement […]
The bold decision announced by the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in support of Morocco’s autonomy plan was near to traumatic for some circles in Spain that continue to view their North African neighbor using colonial lenses. Spain and Morocco have both turned a page on an unprecedented crisis that threatened to sap their bilateral […]
Spain and Morocco, two friendly countries, have laid the foundations of a “21st century relationship”, stressed the Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. A “framework of bilateral relations of the twenty-first century” opens today ending a period of “misunderstanding between two fraternal, friendly, cooperative and truly loyal countries,” said Saturday, Grande-Marlaska in statements to […]
The Foreign ministry of Spain has published on its website a map showing undivided Morocco including the Sahara. The move comes after Spain’s decision to officially endorse the Moroccan Autonomy Plan as the most serious and credible basis to end the dispute over the Sahara and the landmark meeting held Thursday in Rabat between Spanish […]
Spanish support for Morocco over the Sahara issue ushered a new era in their relations, based on mutual trust auguring well for enhanced bilateral cooperation at all levels. The fog of tension dissipated between the two countries following a letter from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez supporting Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara as “the […]