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France and Tunisia agree to normalize the issuance of visas

09/01/2022 | Society / Institutions

FRANCE / TUNISIA. In a joint statement, the Tunisian and French Ministries of the Interior announced "the normalization by France, with immediate effect, of the modalities for issuing visas in Tunisia.

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Nine funds create the continent's first network of sovereign investors

06/21/2022 | Society / Institutions

AFRICA. Gathered in Rabat, nine sovereign funds, including two Mediterranean ones with Morocco and Egypt, are launching the Africa Sovereign Investors Forum, a platform dedicated to project development and investment promotion.

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Ceuta and Melilla border gates to be raised again

05/17/2022 | Society / Institutions

MOROCCO / SPAIN. The announcement of the forthcoming reopening of the border posts of the Spanish enclaves in Morocco of Ceuta and Melilla, two years after their closure, constitutes a new fruit of the détente between the two countries.

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Gas further cools relations between Algeria and Spain

04/28/2022 | Industry

ALGERIA / SPAIN / MOROCCO. Relations between Algeria and Spain, disrupted since March 2022, are experiencing a new episode of tension as Madrid wants to send back to Morocco part of the Algerian gas it receives.

Morocco and Spain officially end diplomatic crisis between the two kingdoms

04/08/2022 | Society / Institutions

MOROCCO / SPAIN. After almost a year of crisis, the time has come for Spain and Morocco to return to more friendly relations and a consolidation of bilateral cooperation beneficial to both countries.

The Eastern Mediterranean becomes a new gas province

04/05/2022 | Society / Institutions

MEDITERRANEAN. The problem of gas resources in the Mediterranean, but also of their sharing, was invited to the 11th Cybèle meeting in Marseilles whereas the decision of the European Union not to be supplied with Russian gas imposes to find other solutions.

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Israel recognises Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara

03/29/2022 | Society / Institutions

WESTERN SAHARA. At the Arab-Israeli summit held in the Negev desert, Israel affirmed its support for Morocco's autonomy proposal for Western Sahara.

Madrid joins Rabat's position on the future of Western Sahara

03/22/2022 | Society / Institutions

SPAIN / MOROCCO. The Spanish government is making a complete turnaround of its forty-six year old policy by joining the position of Morocco and its autonomy plan for Western Sahara.

The Tunisian Land'Or concretizes its development in Morocco

02/24/2022 | Industry

MOROCCO / TUNISIA. The Tunisian Land'Or obtains an additional loan of 36,9 million dirhams (3,5 M€) for its subsidiary Land'Or Maroc Industrie which finalizes a factory in Kenitra.

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Israel wants to quadruple its economic exchanges with Morocco

02/22/2022 | Society / Institutions

ISRAEL / MOROCCO. New step in the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel with the signing of an economic cooperation agreement providing for the creation of qualified industrial zones with the United States.

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Spain replaces Algeria to deliver gas to Morocco

02/08/2022 | Society / Institutions

SPAIN / MOROCCO / ALGERIA. The Spanish and Moroccan governments signed an agreement on gas on Thursday 3 February 2022. Following its decision to unilaterally break off all relations with Morocco at the end of August 2021, Algeria decided on 31 October 2021 not to renew its contract (running for 25...

Albania becomes a member of the UN Security Council

01/03/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALBANIA. Since Saturday 1 January 2022, Albania has joined - together with Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Gabon and Ghana - the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member.

Western Sahara: An Algerian-Moroccan condominium as a political solution to the fifty-year old conflict

12/07/2021 | Reflections

For forty-six years, the realisation of the Greater Maghreb has been blocked by the absence of a diplomatic solution concerning Western Sahara, a...

Western Sahara issue further divides the Maghreb

11/02/2021 | Society / Institutions

WESTERN SAHARA. While the Minurso mandate has just been extended by one year, Staffan de Mistura starts his new mandate as UN envoy for Western Sahara in the middle of a regional crisis.

UN Secretary General calls for resumption of political process on Western Sahara

10/05/2021 | Society / Institutions

WESTERN SAHARA. In his annual report on the situation in Western Sahara, Antonio Guterres regrets a "greatly deteriorated situation" over the past year.

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France halves the number of visas issued to Maghreb nationals

09/29/2021 | Society / Institutions

FRANCE / MAGHREB. In retaliation to the non-issuance of consular passes allowing the return of their nationals expelled from France, Paris has decided to divide by two the number of visas granted to Algerian and Moroccan nationals and by 30% those granted to Tunisians.

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Paris plans international conference on Libya's new governmentlessness

09/22/2021 | Society / Institutions

LIBYA. While the Libyan Parliament has just voted a motion of censure against the transitional government, France wants to maintain the electoral calendar in this country and proposes an international conference on Libya in Paris.

"Morocco no longer accepts the Spanish position on Western Sahara”

06/15/2021 | Society / Institutions

SPAIN/MOROCCO. Head of the Geopolitics and Global Security Department at CIDOB, Spain's oldest international relations centre, Eduard Soler is its Mena referent. In an exclusive interview granted to econostrum.info on the occasion of his speech to the members of the Euromed-IHEDN association, he examines the love/hate relationship between Spain and Morocco.

AFD to support the development of the SSE in Morocco

04/06/2021 | Society / Institutions

MOROCCO / FRANCE. The French Development Agency (AFD) and the Moroccan Ministry of Tourism, Handicrafts, Air Transport and Social Economy sign a €1.5M grant agreement.

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Historic first flight between Tel Aviv and Rabat

12/22/2020 | Transport

MOROCCO / ISRAEL. Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor, was aboard the first direct commercial flight between Tel Aviv and Rabat symbolizing the new diplomatic relations between Israel and Morocco.

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