On the two issues of vegetables and fishing exploitation in Western Sahara, Morocco is experiencing some serious legal difficulties facing European authorities.
For years, Morocco has received money from European countries that fish in the fish-rich waters of Western Sahara (mainly Spanish and French). It was Spain that made this deal with Morocco in 1975. And when Spain entered Europe, the agreement was extended to all EU countries. This involves millions of euros.
The Sahara, international territory
The only problem is that Western Sahara is a non-autonomous territory that internationally does not belong to Morocco, even if several countries have recognized the Moroccanization of this territory. The Polisario Front, based in Algeria and supported by this country, claims the independence of this territory and attacked in Brussels the prerogatives that Morocco has assigned to itself; According to our information, the Polisario won on the merits. Normally, the final decision should come after the summer.
Sahara tomatoes
Morocco is also attacked on a more secondary point: it should no longer have the right to put the “Morocco” label on vegetables, particularly tomatoes, grown in Western Sahara.
