The need to ensure energy security in Western countries and to invest more in renewable energies is now being talked about loudly in all corners of the world. In this context of Russia's war against Ukraine, the entire Western world realises that there is nothing as vital in today's world as the guarantee of energy independence. The country, whose anti-COVID 19 vaccination campaign was among the most advanced globally, was able to create the conditions for the creation of a vaccine production platform designed to supply domestic needs and expand the target market to Africa. Xi Jinping's government only completely paralysed transport in the province of Hubei, with a population of 60 million, where the city of Wuhan, with 11 million inhabitants, is located. Not even China has implemented such measures throughout its territory. In the eyes of the Spanish newspaper, "Morocco is at the forefront of the countries that have adopted the most confinement measures in their fight against the coronavirus. sectors.ĭuring the COVID-19 health crisis, King Mohammed VI reacted quickly and efficiently by implementing a strategy that has been considered by experts and the international press, including the Spanish press, as one of the most efficient strategies in the world, which is why the leading Spanish newspaper El País chose this title for one of its articles of 23 March 2021: "Morocco is at the global forefront in containment measures against the coronavirus". In addition, Tangier-Med is an industrial platform comprising more than 900 companies, which earn 7.3 billion euros in terms of annual turnover in the various automotive, textile, aeronautical, commercial, etc. The port of Tangier-Med, which was a real project, is a world logistics port located in the Strait of Gibraltar, will become in 2020 the first port in the Mediterranean and the second largest port in Africa.Īs figures are always revealing, Tangier-Med is connected to 186 world ports, and has a capacity to handle 9 million containers, 7 million passengers, 700,000 trucks and 1 million vehicles. Morocco's first highway connects Rabat and Safi and is the busiest motorway in Africa, with more than 45,000 vehicles a day on the section between Rabat and Casablanca. The motorway network has also come to cover all regions of the country. Morocco is the only country on the African continent with a high-speed train linking Tangier to Casablanca, and it soon links the north of the country with the south. The kingdom south of the Strait of Gibraltar, which lacks the natural resources of gas and oil, now has an infrastructure that makes it one of the best places to live in the Arab world. Never has a Moroccan monarch managed to bring about so many changes in such a short period of time as King Mohammed VI. Never has a Moroccan monarch managed to bring about so many changes in such a short period of time as King Mohammed VI has done. Moroccans are celebrating 23 years of the reign of Mohammed VI, who is turning Morocco, with intelligence and discretion, into a power in the Maghreb region. Those who have had the opportunity to visit the southern shore of the Strait over the past two decades alone have witnessed the drastic changes Morocco has undergone in the 23 years of the reign of Mohammed VI, the monarch who has succeeded in making Morocco a totally different kingdom from what it was. On the other hand, it is a neighbour that still arouses fear or a certain rejection on the part of other sectors of the Spanish people for various reasons that mix history, sometimes ideology, immigration problems and the thorny current issues that are brought to the table between the two countries from time to time. On the one hand, it is a country that fascinates, with its culture, music and gastronomy, almost a million Spanish tourists who cross the Strait of Gibraltar every year. Morocco is a country so near and yet so far for many Spaniards. "Moroccans are celebrating 23 years of a reign that has turned Morocco into a Maghreb power".