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  • 2019-03-14 (xsd:date)
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  • the Kingdom of Morocco. On 15 January 2019 (en)
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  • On 15 January 2019, Merja Kyllönen, the Member of the European Parliament, questioned the legality of the EU-Morocco Agreement in her tweet. According to her, an addendum to the agreement does not comply with the decision made by the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the adjacent waters of Western Sahara. The claim is not juridical, but political. Therefore, it is uncheckable. When buying Moroccan sardines or tomatoes in the supermarket, have you ever stopped to think where they might actually be from? Western Sahara is a disputed territory on the northwestern coast of the continent of Africa. It became a part of the Scramble for Africa when European powers such as France and the Great Britain divided the continent into colonies in the late 1800s. Western Sahara and a part of Morocco were occupied by Spain until 1975 when the Spanish military dictator Francisco Franco ceded the reign over Western Sahara to King Hassan II of Morocco. To this day, Western Sahara, also known as Africa’s last colony" (en)
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