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Morocco plans to propose a new strategy for cooperation on irregular migration to its European partners, seeking to move away from a model that the Foreign Ministry says has shown its limits in the face of repeated migration crises. The initiative was announced by King Mohammed VI during the opening of the parliamentary year.

In his address opening the new legislative term, King Mohammed VI reaffirmed the sovereign and voluntary nature of Morocco’s migration partnership with Spain, described the existing cooperation framework as outdated and announced plans to present a new strategic vision to the Kingdom’s partners.

At a time when the Moroccan-Spanish partnership has never shown such resilience, the announcement that King Felipe VI will visit Ceuta and Melilla on October 13 and 14 strikes a jarring note—and looks like a thinly disguised capitulation to the escalating demands of Spain’s right and radical right. The trip, the Spanish monarch’s first since ascending the throne, drags relations between the two countries back into a colonial anachronism and runs counter to every logic of de-escalation.

The four-day session in Strasbourg brings together parliamentarians to discuss media freedom, migration, climate action and the impact of artificial intelligence.

Recent data points to a major shift in Mediterranean migration routes, with growing departures from Algeria affecting Spain and France while the phenomenon reaches across all layers of Algerian society, including the country’s political elite.

Operation carried out from Casablanca’s Mohammed V airport in coordination with Sudanese embassy; ambassador says returnees can contribute to reconstruction.

13,595 migrants rescued at sea; authorities say irregular routes are increasingly shifting towards West Africa and other parts of southern Mediterranean.

Before Congress, the Spanish prime minister said that no national or international institution had provided evidence to support the claim that Morocco planned or organized the mass entry of migrants into Ceuta. Pedro Sánchez also demanded explanations over the role of the National Center for Immigration and Borders and announced the publication of all reports drawn up before the events of July 30 and 31.

Since this summer’s migration crisis, there has been much talk about what Europe owes Ceuta. It is time to look at what Ceuta costs Europe. These roughly 19 km² of Spanish territory on the African coast are heavily subsidized and supported by the European Union. But the cost of the presidios cannot be measured in millions of euros alone. While it is first and foremost budgetary, it is also political, bringing to Brussels the very divisions that the European Pact on Migration thought it had overcome. And above all, what is the price of responsibility? How far should European solidarity go when it is called upon to shoulder the consequences of national political choices?