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Many Saharawi are exiled in refugee camps in the Algerian desert (Photo: DG ECHO)

EU silent on how it obtained Saharawi support for Moroccan trade deal

The European Commission is unclear on how it obtained the consent of the Saharawi people in a new trade agreement with Morocco which covers the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.

On Thursday (2 October), officials in Brussels announced that they had met all the requirements set out in a European Court of Justice ruling last year, insisting that “speci...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Many Saharawi are exiled in refugee camps in the Algerian desert (Photo: DG ECHO)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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