Morocco climbs three places to reach 27th in the world in the RepCore Nations 2026 study. It ranks ahead of all the African and Arab countries evaluated, driven in particular by the improvement in its technological image and its international sporting performances.
In 2025, the European Union bought €25.5 billion worth of goods from Morocco and €26.5 billion from Algeria. With a difference of only one billion euros, the amounts are almost identical. But the composition of exports is radically different.
Ports, tourism, automobiles, agriculture: when a Moroccan sector advances, part of the Spanish press does not merely report that success. It immediately explains what it could cost Spain. Several recent headlines show a recurring pattern.
In 2022, Morocco and Israel announced the creation of special industrial zones intended to give concrete form to their cooperation with the United States. Four years later, no Moroccan zone is included in the corresponding official U.S. framework.
The future Gotion High-Tech battery plant in Kénitra will be directly connected to the railway network. Morocco has just allocated nearly 24 hectares of land for the construction of this new infrastructure.
Morocco is expanding its motorways, stadiums, factories and major projects as 2030 approaches. But behind this spectacular transformation lies a more difficult problem to solve: some young people still do not see this modernization translating into enough jobs.
Moroccan automotive exports declined in 2025. The World Bank attributes this to less dynamic European demand, but also to the growing competition from Chinese electric vehicles in the kingdom’s main markets.
Moroccan textile and leather exports fell by 6.5% in the first half of 2026, while Morocco’s overall sales abroad continued to grow.
Morocco spent 203.5 billion dirhams importing finished consumer products in 2025. A record bill, driven by cars, medicines and electronic devices, while the kingdom simultaneously seeks to strengthen its local production.
Moroccan exports continued to grow in 2025, but the automotive sector stalled. The World Bank attributes this decline to weakening European demand and the growing competition from Chinese electric vehicles .
American automotive supplier Gentex will open a factory in Morocco designed to supply the European market. The kingdom prevailed against several Eastern European countries following a comparison of costs, trade agreements, geopolitical risks, and access to automakers.
A man who hoped to obtain a mortgage claims to have been used as a front man by a network suspected of creating shell companies and defrauding financing organizations. The case led two suspects before the Fès prosecutor’s office.