Saturday, 4 October, 2025

POLISARIO Front Denounces “Shameful” EU-Morocco Agreement That Tramples on Sahrawi Sovereignty

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By: Dr. Hana Saada
POLISARIO Front Denounces “Shameful” EU-Morocco Agreement That Tramples on Sahrawi Sovereignty

POLISARIO Front Denounces “Shameful” EU-Morocco Agreement That Tramples on Sahrawi Sovereignty

✍️ BY: Dr. Hana Saada

Algiers – October 2025 – In a scathing rebuke to Brussels, the POLISARIO Front has issued a blistering condemnation of the European Union’s decision to sign a new trade agreement with Morocco extending tariff preferences to products originating from occupied Western Sahara. The deal, provisionally applied and pushed through in haste, has been branded by the Sahrawi liberation movement as an “illegal and immoral pact” that flagrantly contravenes international law and brazenly disregards repeated rulings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

From Bir Lehlou, the POLISARIO Front declared that the agreement amounts to nothing less than a “betrayal of European values” and an act of complicity with Morocco’s colonial occupation. The front underscored that the 2016 ECJ ruling and the 2024 judgments had left no ambiguity: Western Sahara is a territory distinct from Morocco, and any agreement covering it must first obtain the explicit consent of the Sahrawi people. By bypassing this fundamental principle, the EU stands accused of engineering legal contortions to accommodate Rabat’s unlawful claims.

The agreement, negotiated in only five days and adopted through a coercive written procedure, represents, according to POLISARIO, “a grotesque distortion of international trade norms.” Brussels invented the concept of a “region of origin” to mask the illegality of sourcing goods from an occupied land, while committing European funds to bolster Morocco’s agro-industry through desalination projects built on stolen Sahrawi soil. Beyond its glaring illegality, the deal threatens to devastate Europe’s struggling agricultural sector, which has long warned of unfair competition from Moroccan exports—now compounded by the exploitation of Western Sahara’s resources.

“This agreement is nothing but a lifeline to the Moroccan occupier, enabling it to entrench its illegal presence through repression, dispossession, and systematic human rights violations,” the statement thundered. “The EU has chosen to arm the colonizer rather than respect the colonized.”

The POLISARIO Front further lambasted the European Commission’s refusal to engage in direct negotiations with the Sahrawi people’s sole legitimate representative, accusing Brussels of undermining the UN peace process and destabilizing the region. Instead of compliance with the Court’s rulings, the EU opted for what the Front described as a “headlong rush into illegality,” exposing both its weakness and its complicity.

Confident in the legal shields afforded by the ECJ’s landmark rulings, the POLISARIO announced it will pursue every judicial avenue available to protect Sahrawi sovereignty and ensure accountability. At the same time, the movement issued a solemn appeal to European authorities: “Reject this shameful agreement, honor international law, and uphold the Sahrawi people’s inalienable right to self-determination. Anything less is a stain on Europe’s conscience and a gift to colonial aggression.”

With this agreement, the EU stands accused of betraying not only the Sahrawi people but also its own proclaimed values of justice, legality, and respect for international order.

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