https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Gas giant Algeria threatened Wednesday to break a contract to supply gas to Spain if Madrid transferred it onwards to "a third destination", amid tensions with regional rival Morocco. https://www.thelocal.es/20220428/algeria-threatens-to-cut-gas-contract-with-spain Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:24:09 +0200 algeria-threatens-to-cut-gas-contract-with-spain The number of migrants arriving by sea in Spain has plunged with Morocco stopping boat departures since signing lucrative agreements with Madrid and Brussels, experts say. https://www.thelocal.es/20190906/morocco-puts-brakes-on-migrant-flow-as-spain-and-eu-pay-out Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:48:50 +0200 morocco-puts-brakes-on-migrant-flow-as-spain-and-eu-pay-out Spanish police said Thursday they had dismantled a gang that kidnapped Morrocan minors who had migrated alone to the country and asked their families for a ransom to free them. https://www.thelocal.es/20190412/spain-dismantles-gang-that-trafficked-underage-migrants Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:40:39 +0200 spain-dismantles-gang-that-trafficked-underage-migrants A dual Swiss-Spanish national arrested in connection with the murder of two Danish and Norwegian hikers in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains in December was receiving Swiss disability benefits for psychiatric problems, a Spanish newspaper reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190109/swiss-suspect-in-morocco-tourist-murders-had-psychiatric-problems-report Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:02:38 +0100 swiss-suspect-in-morocco-tourist-murders-had-psychiatric-problems-report Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday that he had pitched the idea of a joint bid between his country, Portugal and Morocco to host the 2030 World Cup. https://www.thelocal.es/20181120/spain-pm-wants-2030-world-cup-bid-with-morocco-and-portugal Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:09:17 +0100 spain-pm-wants-2030-world-cup-bid-with-morocco-and-portugal Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday made his first official visit to Morocco, where he pushed for greater cooperation between the two countries on tackling migration. https://www.thelocal.es/20181120/spanish-pm-pushes-for-greater-migration-cooperation-on-visit-to-morocco Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:39:20 +0100 spanish-pm-pushes-for-greater-migration-cooperation-on-visit-to-morocco Two seven-year-old children have died in the Mediterranean as hundreds of migrants sought to reach Spain from Morocco, a Spanish NGO said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.es/20181028/two-migrant-children-die-at-sea-between-morocco-and-spain-ngo Sun, 28 Oct 2018 10:13:20 +0100 two-migrant-children-die-at-sea-between-morocco-and-spain-ngo Spain sent 55 migrants back to Morocco on Monday a day after they forced their way into the Spanish territory of Melilla during an assault on the border in which two migrants died and 19 were injured. https://www.thelocal.es/20181023/spain-returns-migrants-to-morocco-after-storming-of-melilla-enclave Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:29:54 +0200 spain-returns-migrants-to-morocco-after-storming-of-melilla-enclave A migrant died Sunday and 19 others were hurt after around 200 people scaled a fence to enter Spain's Melilla enclave from northern Morocco, local Spanish authorities said. https://www.thelocal.es/20181021/one-dead-as-200-migrants-reach-spains-melilla-enclave Sun, 21 Oct 2018 17:54:01 +0200 one-dead-as-200-migrants-reach-spains-melilla-enclave The Moroccan navy opened fire on a boat transporting migrants from the North African country, wounding one of them, a military source said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20181010/morocco-navy-fires-on-migrant-boat-wounding-one Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:33:42 +0200 morocco-navy-fires-on-migrant-boat-wounding-one Madrid and Rabat are in talks to repatriate thousands of Moroccan minors who arrived in Spain alone without their parents, a Spanish interior ministry spokesman said Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20181005/spain-and-morocco-in-talks-to-repatriate-migrant-minors Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:45:31 +0200 spain-and-morocco-in-talks-to-repatriate-migrant-minors In the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Morocco, 19-year-old Issam crouches near the port after hopping over a fence across one of the only land borders bridging Europe and Africa. https://www.thelocal.es/20180921/moroccan-migrants-risk-it-all-to-reach-europe Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:40:13 +0200 moroccan-migrants-risk-it-all-to-reach-europe Morocco's foreign minister on Thursday rejected any moves by the European Union to outsource reception centres for migrants beyond the bloc's borders to his country https://www.thelocal.es/20180629/orocco-rejects-any-eu-moves-for-it-to-host-migrants Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:41:13 +0200 orocco-rejects-any-eu-moves-for-it-to-host-migrants Ten women who left their children at home in Morocco to earn money picking strawberries in southern Spain have said that they were lied to, exploited and even sexually harassed. https://www.thelocal.es/20180628/moroccan-fruit-pickers-complain-of-exploitation-and-harassment-in-spain Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:13:14 +0200 moroccan-fruit-pickers-complain-of-exploitation-and-harassment-in-spain Police have broken up two gangs suspected of smuggling minors from Morocco into Spain on jet skis, boats or hidden inside trucks, charging thousands of euros for the crossing, Spanish police and Europol said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20180623/spanish-police-break-up-gangs-that-child-smuggling Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:27:00 +0200 spanish-police-break-up-gangs-that-child-smuggling Several Moroccan strawberry pickers in Spain have denounced their working conditions and filed sexual harassment complaints, authorities said Tuesday, in what a local lawmaker described as "modern slavery". https://www.thelocal.es/20180605/metoo-moroccan-fruit-pickers-file-sexual-harassment-complaints-in-spain Tue, 05 Jun 2018 20:32:09 +0200 metoo-moroccan-fruit-pickers-file-sexual-harassment-complaints-in-spain Spanish police said Thursday they had broken up a gang suspected of kidnapping migrants shortly after they arrived in Spain by boat from Morocco and holding them for ransom. https://www.thelocal.es/20180518/spain-police-break-up-gang-kidnapping-migrants-for-ransom Fri, 18 May 2018 11:23:27 +0200 spain-police-break-up-gang-kidnapping-migrants-for-ransom It's a form of hard labour that has provoked an outcry -- Moroccan women bent double, overburdened by goods approaching or exceeding their own bodyweight. https://www.thelocal.es/20180418/trolleys-bring-relief-for-moroccan-mule-women-at-spanish-border Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:35:01 +0200 trolleys-bring-relief-for-moroccan-mule-women-at-spanish-border Two women carrying goods between Morocco and Spain's Ceuta enclave were killed on Monday in a stampede at the border between the two countries, a rights group and officials said. https://www.thelocal.es/20180115/two-moroccan-female-porters-die-in-border-stampede Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:33:41 +0100 two-moroccan-female-porters-die-in-border-stampede Along the border between Spain's North African enclave Ceuta and Morocco, thousands of women eke out a living lugging back-breaking loads of goods in an "organised trafficking" operation tolerated by officials. https://www.thelocal.es/20171006/morocco-mule-women-in-back-breaking-trade-from-spain-enclave Fri, 06 Oct 2017 13:26:50 +0200 morocco-mule-women-in-back-breaking-trade-from-spain-enclave