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A new rule may prevent the registration of certain real estate transactions in Morocco. For plots of land covered by legislation on subdivisions and partitioning, sales, leases or partitions must now be accompanied by specific documents.
An IT specialist who worked in France must pay €19,300 in taxes and penalties on the €38,530 paid to a Moroccan company. She maintains that she neither invoiced nor received these sums. The courts nevertheless consider that they remunerated her own work.
Moroccan tomato exports to the European Union could fall to zero if Brussels applied its strictest rules without producers adapting. This extreme scenario is not a forecast, but it quantifies a risk that could redirect 325 000 tonnes.
A Moroccan man had been seeking family reunification for his wife since November 2022. The prefecture deemed his income insufficient, even though it actually exceeded the legal threshold by 14.53 euros. The court overturned the refusal, ordered a review and ordered the state to pay him 1,500 euros.
The French consulate in Casablanca doubted that an applicant would return to Morocco, even though she had been employed since 2022 and had 38,000 euros. The court overturned the refusal, ordered the visa to be issued and charged the State 1,200 euros.
In Agadir, rising rents and property prices are fueling criticism. In a city in high demand during the summer, pressure from tourist rentals is reviving the question of residents’ purchasing power.
In Belgium, 68 foreign nationals who came to respond to a summons from the Immigration Office have been placed in a closed centre since January. The Court of Cassation rejected the entrapment argument in one of these cases, leaving unresolved the dilemma between appearing and jeopardising one’s freedom, or staying away and risking one’s application.
A few months before the Green March, Hassan II privately explained to American officials why he did not want to confront Spain militarily. A document classified “Top Secret” also reveals that the monarch was prepared to offer the United States bases in Morocco.
A Moroccan employee had requested the renewal of her residence permit the day before it expired. Without an appointment or a temporary receipt, she took the matter to court. The prefect must now summon her within 48 hours, subject to a penalty of 150 euros per day, and the state must pay her 1,500 euros.
A homeless Moroccan man entered a houseboat moored in Lyon in order, he claims, to spend the end of the night sheltered. A cigarette that had not been properly extinguished allegedly started a fire requiring the intervention of 30 firefighters. He was arrested at the scene.
A Moroccan woman had lost before all the Neuchâtel authorities after separating from her Swiss husband. While her deportation seemed certain, resuming their life together led the migration service to renew her permit.
The United States has just updated its practical travel advice for people visiting Morocco. Washington does not consider urban buses safe and warns its citizens that the police response after a crime is reported may be inconsistent.