EU Silent on How It Obtained Saharawi Support for Moroccan Trade Deal

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The intention of the European Commission (EC) to amend the trade pact with Morocco in response to the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which annulled the agricultural and fisheries agreements signed in 2019 between Brussels and Rabat on the understanding that they were reached without the consent of the Sahrawi people, has provoked opposition from the main agricultural organizations in Spain. Crops such as cherry to…

El Pais

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The EU and Morocco are going to try again to ensure that their trade and fisheries agreements comply with European law. European countries have reached a pact to reform them and thus comply with the judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), which has already laid down these texts more than once because it does not take into account that Western Sahara “is not part of the Kingdom of Morocco” and because it does not have “the consent” of…

diarioestrategia.cl

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The new trade agreement between the EU and Morocco, which explicitly includes products from Western Sahara under Moroccan control, will enter into force on Saturday to comply with the 12-month deadline imposed by the EU Court of Justice (EUJ) in a judgment that annulled the previous agreement on the grounds that it was concluded without the consent of the Saharawi people.

El Independiente

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Spanish farmers have been warning for months of the European Commission’s manoeuvres to renew the EU and Morocco trade agreement in an attempt to circumvent the judicial cavalry of a year ago. A reality that could come true this very Wednesday after being put to the vote by the Member States. Spain has already shown itself in favour of the modification that includes the Sahara despite the judgment of the EU Court of Justice. The Minister of Agri…

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On Wednesday, the Asaja and COAG agricultural organisations expressed their rejection of the agricultural agreement reached between the European Union and Morocco, which explicitly includes the products of Western Sahara under Moroccan control, and warned of their 'lack of transparency'. In particular, both organisations recalled that the Court of Justice of the Union [...] The Asaja and COAG entry attack the new agricultural agreement between t…