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).
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.
EU Parliament to hold Western Sahara debates at committee level?
The European Parliament has expressed itself in favour of holding debates in three parliament committees about the exclusion of Western Sahara from EU-Morocco trade agreements.