For Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita Rabat is not interested in building asylum centers on its territory. His rejection was voiced earlier this year by the Kingdom's migration and border surveillance director who sees the EU's plan as a bad idea.
The European Union is raising worries about the surge in migrant arrivals, citing the lowered guard in Morocco. The kingdom, on the other hand, says it lacks financial support to stop the growing trend.
Morocco and the European Union concluded on Thursday negotiations held to renew the 2014 fisheries agreement, a diplomatic source told Yabiladi. The treaty is part of a series of agreements signed by Morocco way before the creation of the continental organization.
Spain’s new PM Pedro Sanchez is determined to keep on good terms with Morocco. After Josep Borrell and Fernando Grande-Marlaska visited Rabat, El Pais started praising Morocco’s head of the Moroccan secret services, Abdellatif Hammouchi.
To circumvent the Dublin III Regulation on asylum and migration, the European Union plans to set up detention centers for migrants in North Africa.
Minister of Agriculture and Sea Fishery Aziz Akhannouch said Sunday during a TV talk show that what the CJEU’s Advocate-General said is dangerous. According to the Minister, Morocco is capable of abandoning the fisheries agreement concluded with the EU.