Tag: Morocco
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Morocco gets its way as EU to pay another €190 million to Morocco over border-control blackmail
EuroNews is reporting that the EU is set to fund up to an additional €190 million to the Moroccan government for up the 2027 for border-control following renegotiations. This is an additional to €220 million in funds already disbursed to Morocco over previous border-security agreements. The new deal has also been confirmed by Morocco’s state…
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Morocco wants Ceuta: EU still providing Morocco with funds to supposedly control its border
Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi has made controversial comments on Moroccan television announcing that Morocco seeks to annex the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. The Justice Minister made this comments as he was discussing the Ceuta migrant crisis on Saudi-television Asharq News last Tuesday. The Minister said that the Moroccan government engages in regularly…
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Spanish intelligence services raise spectre of a repeat of the 2021 Ceuta crisis
Spanish intelligence services have raised the spectre of a repeat of 2021’s cross-border events following last week’s Ceuta crisis, when up to 60,000 migrants breached the border illegally from the Moroccan side. The Spanish intelligence services identified members of the Moroccan secret services among the crowds that gathered at the border, while also reporting an…
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Spanish Prime Minister writes to President Von der Leyen and urges restoration of common position
In a strongly worded letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez condemned Italy and other European countries that responded to this week’s chaotic scenes in Ceuta by demanding that Spain be suspended from the Schengen Area. The Spanish Prime Minister called on the presidents of the European Council…
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Spain’s Interior Minister blames criminal gangs for chaotic border breach: praises Morocco as a reliable partner
Spain’s Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, held a press conference in Ceuta today and announced that most of the approximately 60,000 people who entered Ceuta illegally during last week’s chaotic events had been expelled. He also echoed the Spanish Prime Minister’s claims, blaming the events on criminal groups while praising the Moroccan government as a reliable…
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UPDATED – Spain’s Foreign Minister says that all of those who breached the border have been repatriated
UPDATED: The Spanish government and Spain’s Foreign Minister have announced that most of those who illegally breached the border into Ceuta during this week’s chaotic scenes have been repatriated. EU Council President Antonio Costa expressed his soldiarity with Spain and reiterated that third-country nationals in Cueta do not enjoy freedom of movement to mainland Spain…
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BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister says that Moroccans who crossed illegally into Ceuta will be repatriated
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez held a press conference at the Palacio de la Asamblea (Palace of the Assembly of the Autonomous City of Ceuta), announcing that the Moroccans who entered Ceuta illegally yesterday will be repatriated. The Spanish Prime Minister reiterated that his government is working with Morocco on the issue and blamed the…
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Italy calls for Spain to be suspended from Schengen after thousands of Moroccans breach the border of Ceuta
Italy has called for exceptional Schengen restrictions against Spain after thousands of migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, yesterday, on Thursday, 30 July. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said her government was considering extraordinary border-control measures, including suspending the application of the Schengen agreement with Spain. She described the scenes in…
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France seizes Russian oil shadow-fleet tanker off the coast of Morocco
Yesterday, the French seized a Russian oil shadow-fleet tanker off the coast of Morocco in the Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean Sea). The operation was also supported by the UK with HMS Dagger. the ship seized is callrd The Grinch (IMO 9288851) and it had a flag from Comorros. This is the first time that France…
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Protestors in Morocco are protesting against the Government’s corruption: Police kill multiple protestors
The Maltese Herald has successfully got the full story behind the massive protests sweeping Morocco. We are currently in contact with sources based in Morocco. Protests in Morocco are very unusual after the country avoided the major turmoil of the Arab Spring in 2011. Last week, a group of people went to the Health Minister’s…
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Gen Z rises in Morocco in very unusual protests
Very unusual images and video are being posted online by Moroccans of what seem to be very unusual mass protests being organised by Gen Z. Morocco was one of the few and exceptional Arab countries which remained unfazed by the Arab Spring of 2010. A video published online shows protestors burning the portrait of the…
