The Spanish Congress rejected yesterday a call for respect of international law in the case of EU fisheries in Western Sahara. The main beneficiary of the illegal fisheries agreement is...Spain.
The proposition came from a group of parliamentarians last December, and was up for discussion yesterday, 23 February 2010.
90% of the licences under the EU-Moroccan fisheries agreement signed in 2007 was given to Spain.
The agreement is according to UN and EU legal experts in violation of international law.
Here you can download the video of the debate on the proposition (in Spanish).
One of the richest coastlines in the world
The fish stocks of occupied Western Sahara have not only attracted the interest of the Moroccan fleet: other foreign interests are also fishing in the occupied waters through arrangements with Moroccan counterparts. Along the Western Saharan coastline, a processing industry has emerged.
EU Commission still scratching heads over ECJ rulings
Three months have passed since the EU Court of Justice banned EU-Morocco trade deals in occupied Western Sahara. The EU Commission is still in the dark on how to take it from here.
This is how much the EU took from the Saharawis
… in just one year, and under the EU-Morocco trade agreement alone.
This is what the ECJ said on trade in Western Sahara
WSRW has summarised the key findings of the landmark rulings on Western Sahara of the EU Court of Justice, of 4 October 2024.