Morocco confirms its status as a global reference. Elected best stadium 2025, the Moulay Abdellah Complex in Rabat dominates a global ranking where five Moroccan stadiums are featured in the prestigious top 10.
Agadir is emerging as a cost-effective and sunny alternative to traditional European destinations. The Moroccan resort offers an authentic cultural change of scenery at prices that defy all competition for families.
The Casablanca Municipal Council has confirmed the maintenance of its policy of massive subsidies to the public transport sector, a measure aimed at ensuring the stability of fares for users.
Morocco continues to modernize its army. For more than a decade, the kingdom has steadily increased its military spending each year, reaching a record of 14.5 billion dirhams in 2026.
The rating agency Fitch looks favorably on the budgetary stability displayed in the 2026 finance bill. However, it warns that the many infrastructure projects planned as part of the preparations for the 2030 World Cup could lead to overruns and weaken public finances.
Abdessamad Kayouh, Minister of Transport and Logistics, presented the draft budget of his department, amounting to nearly 29 billion dirhams, to the Commission on Infrastructure, Energy, Mines, Environment and Sustainable Development at the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
The Moroccan government plans to generate tax revenue of more than 21 billion dirhams from taxes on tobacco and alcohol consumption to maintain the budget deficit at 3% of GDP in 2026. An amount that far exceeds the expected profits of the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP).
The second tranche of the general salary increase in the Moroccan civil service will be paid at the end of July. The information was confirmed by Mustapha Baitas, the official government spokesperson, during the press conference following the Council of Government.
The High Commission for Planning (HCP) published on Wednesday the main points of the 2025 budget. Among other things, we learn that the economic growth of the kingdom should stand at 3.8% this year.
Morocco has been investing for about ten years in strengthening and modernizing its army, increasing its military budget year after year to reach 133 billion dirhams this year, compared to 124 billion in 2024, an increase of 7.25%.
Fouzi Lekjaa, the Delegate Minister in charge of the Budget, presented on Tuesday to the House of Councillors the main measures and amendments made to the 2025 Finance Bill.
The budget of the Ministry of Transport and Logistics for the year 2025 amounts to 13 billion dirhams, announced Abdessamad Kayouh, in charge of this department on Tuesday. They will be used to modernize road, air and rail transport infrastructure.