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Morocco-Gate and EU trade practices: legal ambiguity and political risk in Western Sahara
8-Apr-2026 Dzair Tube
The Morocco-gate scandal continue to cast a shadow over European institutional credibility in relation to policies concerning Western Sahara. It suggest that, despite heightened scrutiny, structural vulnerabilities linked to influence, opacity, and political compromise remain embedded within European decision-making processes.
MEPs push back on Commission over Western Sahara in EU–Morocco trade
20-Mar-2026 Western Sahara Resource Watch
MEPs from across the political spectrum sharply criticised the European Commission over its handling of EU-Morocco trade relations covering occupied Western Sahara, raising concerns over legality, transparency and an apparent disregard for Parliament’s role.
US eyes minerals in occupied Western Sahara
18-Feb-2026 WSRW
Seeking to position itself as a key supplier of strategic minerals for Western powers, Morocco has signed a new agreement with the United States that covers Western Sahara’s waters and the critical minerals harboured there.
EU-Morocco Statement: autonomy without self-determination, law without lawfulness
5-Feb-2026 WSRW
A joint statement that came out of last week’s EU-Morocco Association Council asks readers to believe in a fiction: that an undefined autonomy plan imposed by an occupying power can satisfy the right to self-determination, and that respect for international law can coexist with the systematic ignoring of the EU’s own highest court.
Government meets to discuss African Continental Free Trade Area
8-Jan-2026 Sahara Press Sevice
29 January 2025 (SPS) – The government held a ministerial meeting today, Monday, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Commerce, bringing together ministers of the sectors concerned with implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area, within the continental commitments of the Sahrawi Republic at the African level.
The EU–Morocco agreement is illegal and unjust
5-Jan-2026 bilaterals.org
The EU-Morocco agreement favours powerful lobbies and actors, marginalises European farmers and the Sahrawi people, and fails to comply with international law.
EU-Morocco agreement, resolution 2797: the predation of Western Sahara continues
19-Dec-2025 Tomate sahraouie
To be more explicit, predatory practices have always existed and are becoming more pronounced, solely for the benefit of the king and his oligarchs, who are imposing an agro-export model that is disastrous for the population and the environment. Large retailers in France and Europe also play very damaging role: that of importing tomatoes produced… in the middle of the desert.
Sahrawi people denounce, from outside European Parliament, attempts to legitimize looting through new EU–Morocco trade agreement
13-Dec-2025 Sahara Press Sevice
Sahrawi abroad denounced, in a closing statement following the demonstration organized Wednesday by the diaspora outside the European Parliament in Brussels, the EU’s attempt to legitimize the illegal plundering of Western Sahara’s natural resources through the signing of a new trade agreement with Morocco.
Parliament nearly blocks Morocco’s labelling grab
2-Dec-2025 WSRW
EU lawmakers today had a golden opportunity to stand up for European consumers. Backed by a solid majority, the Parliament came close to overturning the Commission.
These are the MEPs who voted for ignoring the CJEU
28-Nov-2025 Western Sahara Resource Watch
187 Parliamentarians voted to ignore the ruling of the CJEU, the interests of EU farmers, the rights of the EU consumers and the aspirations of the Saharawi people. Here they are.
Farmers block Azura warehouse in France and launch legal action
27-Nov-2025 Western Sahara Resource Watch
Growing pressure on EU–Morocco trade deal as French farmers today launch legal steps and storm Azura’s entry point for Western Sahara produce in Perpignan.
Morocco–EU deal : Labeling of Sahara products fails to convince MEPs
23-Nov-2025 Yabiladi
The European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee has reignited debate over the labeling of agricultural products from Western Sahara, a contentious issue in the recent Morocco-EU agricultural agreement.
Spanish congress opposes EU-Morocco trade amendment on Western Sahara
21-Oct-2025 AL24 News
Spain’s Congress has rejected the recent amendment to the European Union–Morocco trade agreement, introduced by the European Commission to include products from Western Sahara, described as a blatant violation of a ruling by the CJEU requiring the prior consent of the Sahrawi people.
How not to trade with occupying powers: Western Sahara and the amendment to the EU-Moroccan association agreements
18-Oct-2025 EJIL Talk
the EU and Morocco concluded an amendment to the EU-Mediterranean Agreement. With the approval of the Council it is already being applied provisionally pending entry into force. Its purpose is to enable the continued granting of tariff preferences to products originating in occupied Western Sahara.
Revised EU-Morocco trade agreement: ECVC denounces this agreement which goes against the CJEU ruling and will defend the rights of European and Moroccan peasants in solidarity with the Saharawi people
16-Oct-2025 ECVC
ECVC denounces the steps taken by the European Commission and Morocco regarding the EU-Morrocco trade agreement, as they try at all costs to save the interests of a minority of transnational corporations and foreign investors at the expense of the Saharawi people and Moroccan and European peasants.
MEPs shocked by Commission’s Western Sahara bypass
14-Oct-2025 WSRW
In a hearing at the European Parliament earlier this week, lawmakers expressed outrage at how the Commission sidestepped them to push through a new agreement covering occupied Western Sahara, in violation of EU Court rulings.
EU and Morocco conclude trade deal on Western Sahara
7-Oct-2025 The Brussels Times
The European Union and Morocco have reached an agreement to extend trade benefits to products originating from Western Sahara, according to the European Commission on Monday.
Parliament trade chief calls Commission’s handling of Morocco deal ‘outrageous’
7-Oct-2025 Euractiv
“Despite having just improved our framework with the Commission to prevent this kind of situation ... they’ve gone ahead and done exactly that,” Bernd Lange, who chairs Parliament’s trade committee, said
Spanish farmers turn to legal action against recent EU-Morocco agreement
7-Oct-2025 Yabiladi
The Coordinating Body of Farmers and Livestock Breeders Organizations in Spain (COAG) has announced plans to pursue legal action against the trade agreement between the European Commission and Morocco.
EU scrambles to save Morocco deal with controversial Western Sahara clause
1-Oct-2025 Euractiv
After the EU’s top court ruled that the deal breached the principle of self-determination, Brussels was given 12 months to comply.