A tunnel project linking Africa to Europe.
Britain is studying today a plan to revive a decades-old project, a tunnel project linking Africa with Europe, by linking Gibraltar with the city of Tangiers in northern Morocco.
This came after several years of the failure of a similar project, which Spain was trying to implement.
The tunnel project linking Europe and Africa:
The United Kingdom embarked on a serious study of the tunnel project linking Europe and Africa, as confirmed by several press reports.
The idea of linking Europe and Africa through a tunnel dates back to the late nineteenth century.
The idea was first put forward in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and today Britain aims to build a thirty-eight-kilometer tunnel linking Gibraltar with Morocco, with a value of nine-point-4 billion dollars.
Why was the tunnel not built in the past?
In the past, this was not possible due to the difficult terrain, and the lack of sufficient funds to implement the project. But earlier this year, the project appeared again, as Britain adopted it after its exit from the European Union, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that this project would improve trade relations between the two continents.
As former British Ambassador Thomas said: This project can improve the economic and political relations between Morocco and Europe.
The tunnel extending for a distance of thirty-eight kilometers will be similar to the European tunnel linking France with Britain, and if this project goes ahead, it will replace the Moroccan-Spanish tunnel that was talked about several years ago.
The Moroccan-Spanish project.
Although the Moroccan-Spanish project ended before it began due to funding problems, and frequent earthquakes in the region.
However, several Spanish reports published by the Diario Decadle newspaper said that recent studies were conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
It proved that the company, which is considered one of the largest tunnel digging companies in the world, has the necessary capabilities to complete this project, under the leadership of the British Prime Minister.
The British government is ready to construct a tunnel linking the Gibraltar region in southern Spain, which is under British rule, with the Moroccan city of Tangiers.
The way to develop trade relations with Morocco and Africa.
This project is now undergoing serious study, and a partnership agreement was signed in the year twenty-two, between the two countries, as soon as Britain left the European Union. The agreement stipulated that both Britain and Morocco see the Strait of Gibraltar as a link between the two continents, and that Britain would She was pleased to supervise and finance this project, as the British took good advantage of the failure of the Spanish-Moroccan project, to replace it with another project that would serve the British economy more.
Features of this tunnel:
This tunnel will improve the economic conditions in the cities near Tangiers before he becomes prime minister.
Boris Johnson was responsible for initiating a new strategic relationship with Morocco, in his capacity as British Foreign Secretary, through a series of meetings with his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bouita, in 1818.
The two sides talked a lot about issues related to the economy, culture and security.
Since the United Kingdom is no longer a member of the European Union, Moroccan agricultural products can replace the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian products imported by Britain.
Experts believe that Morocco is a good alternative to compensate for those agricultural imports after Britain’s secession from the European Union.
New economic and political relations with several African countries, especially Morocco .
