Morocco-Spain tunnel: what about the project’s chances of success?

Rabat and Madrid are working on the tunnel project to connect Punta Paloma, in Spain, to Punta Malabata, in Morocco, the completion of which must be effective before the holding of the World Cup that Morocco will co-organize alongside the Spain and Portugal in 2030.

The probability of completion of the Morocco-Spain transcontinental tunnel is 3 out of 5, estimates The Telegraph, before describing the genesis of this old project. The idea of ​​connecting Africa and Europe was born in the 1930s. “The idea of ​​connecting Spain to Morocco by an underwater tunnel has crossed the minds of political leaders for almost a hundred years . As early as the 1920s, the pre-Franco Spanish government was already talking about this connection between Europe and Africa. The project took a major turning point in 1979, when the kings of Spain and Morocco signed an agreement to begin feasibility studies, thus marking the beginning of concrete steps with the creation of a Spanish public body to initiate the project », Recalls the British daily.