Following long negotiations, launched in Rabat on 19 April, Morocco and the European Union confirmed on Friday 20 July that they had come to agreement on renewing their fisheries agreement after their fifth round of talks (see EUROPE 12067).
The talks were complicated by the issue of the Western Sahara. The European Court of Justice ruled that the two parties had to renegotiate some of the provisions of their 2014-2018 partnership which were in breach of the principle of region’s...