EU calls on Morocco to sign up to immigrant deal

The European Commission has urged Morocco to sign an agreement with the EU on repatriation of illegal immigrants before the end of November, with a formal request due from Brussels on Monday (3 October).

The commission says a repatriation agreement with Morocco, a country from which most Sub-Saharan Africans reach Spain in boats through the straits of Gibraltar, or by climbing the tall fences that surround the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, is important in order to prevent "tra...