Sahara occidental
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2-jui-2019 Euractiv
Morocco moves closer to ‘privileged’ partnership with EU
The ‘Euro-Moroccan Partnership for Shared Prosperity was announced at the end of the 14th meeting of the Morocco-EU Association Council last Thursday (27 June) and will include the relaunch of talks on a free trade agreement.
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13-fév-2019 WSRW
European Parliament disregards Court and adopts Morocco fish deal
European Parliament has voted in favour of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement that will be applied to the waters of occupied Western Sahara.
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29-jan-2019 APS
Les associations espagnoles demandent l’étiquetage des produits venant du Sahara occidental
Les organisations de producteurs et d’exportateurs de fruits et légumes espagnoles ont exigé un étiquetage des produits en provenance du Sahara occidental occupé.
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23-jan-2019 APS
Sahara Occidental : l’accord Maroc-UE menace de compromettre une paix fragile
Le Front Polisario a décidé de contester à nouveau devant la CJUE l’accord commercial UE-Maroc incluant le Sahara occidental, affirmant qu’il est en violation du droit de l’Union et du droit international.
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22-jan-2019 Sahara Press Service
Morocco-EU Agreement : Polisario Front to again refer to European court
The Polisario Front has decided to again take the controversial EU-Morocco trade agreement including the Sahrawi territories before the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
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16-jan-2019 EU Observer
EU parliament backs Morocco deal despite row
Efforts to debate the agreement at the plenary were blocked amid political infighting on whether to support the agricultural pact, which seeks to extend into the disputed territory of the Western Sahara.
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16-jan-2019 EU Observer
On Morocco, will the EU ignore its own court ?
How can the EU claim it does not recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara yet negotiated the terms of the deal and its implementation exclusively with Rabat ?
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11-jan-2019 Morocco World News
MEP seeks signatures against Morocco-EU agriculture agreement
As the European Parliament prepares to deliver its final vote on the EU-Morocco agriculture agreement, some pro-Polisario forces from within the European body are again challenging the validity of the agreement.
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8-jan-2019 WSRW
Misleading and false INTA report as basis for Parliamentary vote
The report of the Parliament’s International Trade Committee (INTA) that serves as a basis for the vote on the extension of the EU-Morocco trade deal into occupied Western Sahara contains highly misleading and false claims.
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17-sep-2018 EU Observer
Time for EU to stop being bystander in Western Sahara
The EU has sadly afforded preferential treatment to Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara including by knowingly excluding from the trade talks the thousands of Saharawis forced to live in exile in refugee camps as a result of the occupation.
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30-jui-2018 WSRW
EU Court confirms : Western Sahara not part of EU-Morocco fish deal
For a third consecutive time in less than three years, the Court of Justice of the European Union has confirmed that the EU’s policy of incorporating Western Sahara into its bilateral agreements with Morocco is unlawful.
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25-jui-2018 Forbes
EU fisheries deal with Morocco sparks criticism over inclusion of Western Sahara waters
A fresh legal row may be brewing over the EU’s trade links with Morocco, after the two sides finalised a controversial new fisheries agreement, following almost three months of negotiations.
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25-jui-2018 L’Expression
A quoi joue Bruxelles ?
L’Union européenne s’est mise d’accord avec le Maroc sur le renouvellement de leur accord de pêche, cautionnant l’annexion du Sahara Occidental.
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20-jui-2018 Xinhua
Morocco, EU finalize new fisheries agreement
Morocco and the European Union have finalized a new fisheries agreement.
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17-jui-2018 WSRW
Caught fishing illegally in occupied Western Sahara
Several EU-flagged vessels have blatantly ignored and violated the EU Court judgment invalidating the EU-Morocco fish agreement in Western Sahara.
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17-jui-2018 WSRW
Conseil UE ok : Sahara Occidental inclus à l’accord commercial Maroc
Les ministres des affaires étrangères des États membres de l’UE ont approuvé aujourd’hui l’amendement proposé au protocole commercial avec le Maroc qui inclut le Sahara Occidental occupé, malgré l’absence de consentement du peuple du territoire.
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17-jui-2018 WSRW
Polisario condemns Council’s approval of Western Sahara trade deal
The Western Sahara liberation movement, Frente Polisario, has issued a statement condemning today’s EU Council decision to include Western Sahara in the Morocco trade agreement.
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14-jui-2018 EJIL : Talk !
The Commission’s proposals to correct EU-Morocco relations and the EU’s obligation not to recognise as lawful the ‘illegal situation’ in Western Sahara
The proposals violate the EU and its Member States’ obligation of non-recognition of Morocco’s breaches : the right to self-determination of people, the prohibition on aggression, and some of the ‘intransgressible rules’ of international humanitarian law.
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9-jui-2018 Sahara Press Service
EU-Morocco deal : EU is misguiding the Member States, warns WSRW
The Commission tries to misguide the Member States concerning the consultation process launched to "comply" with the European Court of Justice, which had rejected the inclusion of Western Sahara in the EU-Morocco Association Agreement.
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24-jui-2018 WSRW
EU Parliament critical of Commission’s Western Sahara approach
The EU Commission received heavy critique from the European Parliament for its suggestion to include occupied Western Sahara in a trade deal with Morocco.
