Morocco supplied 62.9% of the raspberries imported by the United Kingdom during the 2025-2026 season. Shipments reached a new record even as British purchases declined. In five years, Morocco’s share has nearly tripled.
Spain is among Europe’s leading producers and exporters of peppers. Yet it depends almost exclusively on Morocco when it buys this vegetable from abroad: 95% of its imports during the first half of 2026 were of Moroccan origin.
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 network had vehicles previously stolen in Morocco registered in Spain. Madrid’s municipal police discovered seven fraudulently registered cars, recovered another stolen vehicle and made two arrests.
Algerians now account for 42% of irregular arrivals recorded on the Western Mediterranean route to Spain, compared with 22% for Moroccans. This reversal has been confirmed by the International Organization for Migration.
Orange Maroc will remove an advertisement installed on a Spanish motorway. The map of the Kingdom shown on the billboard included the Sahara and did not mark the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, sparking two separate controversies in Spain.
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.
Thousands of migrants were waiting to receive their meal on a beach in Ceuta when clashes broke out. Spanish police charged the crowd and used tear gas, causing hundreds of people to flee toward a road and a breakwater.
Siraj is only three years old. After reaching Ceuta by swimming with his parents and brother, this young Moroccan has lived for 26 days under a tent, without toilets, amid the abandoned warehouses of the El Tarajal industrial zone.
As Spanish media discuss energy levers that could be used against Morocco following the Ceuta crisis, a power cut plunged the Congress Defence Committee into darkness as it met to hear Minister Margarita Robles.
At the height of the Ceuta crisis, José Manuel Albares and Nasser Bourita exchanged messages and spoke as many as 27 times in a single day. Morocco denied any responsibility for the mass arrivals, while Madrid now rules out the possibility that Rabat was issuing a warning.
Google’s AI Mode received exactly the same sentence, with only the country of origin changing. With a Spaniard, it imagines a friendly encounter. With a Moroccan, it spontaneously brings up danger and displays emergency numbers.