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The First summit between the League of Arab States and the European Union held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, February 24-25, has reiterated the two sides’ commitment to reaching a two-state solution, and to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace between Israelis and Palestinians. In a declaration adopted by the summit Monday, the two […]
The European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries adopted Wednesday (Jan.23), by a large majority, the fisheries agreement between Morocco and the European Union (EU). The decisive vote of this committee, which decides on substantive issues, is the final step in the European Parliament’s specialized committees before the ultimate adoption in a plenary session expected to take […]
European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici has commended the adoption by the European Parliament (EP) by a large majority of the EU-Morocco agricultural agreement which opens a new chapter in the strategic partnership set between Rabat and Brussels. “The EP vote is a culmination of more than two years of intense and […]
About 900 elected Sahrawi representatives, politicians and civil society militants have called on the European Union to extend the fisheries and farm accords with Morocco, underlining the positive impacts of these agreements on the socioeconomic development of the Sahara and its local inhabitants. They affirmed that these accords benefit directly the local population, saying the […]
The European Parliament has acknowledged the positive impact that tariff preferences granted to agricultural and fisheries products from the Sahara have on these Southern provinces. “The tariff preferences enjoyed by the territory between 2013 and 2016 had a positive impact on the agricultural and fisheries sector, investment in infrastructure, health and education. The non-application of […]
The Algeria-backed Polisario has suffered a new defeat in the European Union Court of Justice. A ruling of the court, rendered on July 19, has rejected an appeal lodged by the separatist front in 2014 against the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement and slammed it as ineligible to lodge such an appeal. After the Court’s rulings issued […]
The College of European Commissioners unanimously adopted the exchange of letters covering the Sahara region in the agriculture agreement with Morocco. The decision will be submitted to the vote of the European Parliament after a European Court of Justice decision on the Sahara. Sources from Morocco and the EU said that under the new agreement […]
Morocco and the European Union have initialed in Brussels this Wednesday (January 31) a document strengthening their partnership under the farm agreement binding the two parties. “The signing of this document is part of the strengthening of the Morocco-European agricultural partnership on the basis of the farm agreement between the two parties”, said Foreign Minister […]
The UN Tuesday lambasted in a report the EU-backed plan meant to fight illegal migration in Libya over the inhuman conditions prevailing in the camps where the migrants are stranded. The European Union led by Italy has been supporting Libyan authorities to stem the illegal trafficking of humans on the Mediterranean. Libyan coastguards have been […]
Poland opens its doors to migrants from Europe, notably from Ukraine and Belarus, but not from North Africa and the Middle East, said Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. In an interview with Russian news agency Ria Novosti, the Polish Minister reiterated his administration’s stand against refugees, saying that Poland will never apply the relocation plan […]