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Morocco offers fish for landIt seeks EU recognition of its claim to Western Sahara. Experts say this could set a precedent for other contested regions.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInFree article usually reserved for subscribersSeagulls flock as foshermen gut sardines in the Essaouira Harbour. Essaouira is a bustling fishing village 150 kilometers west of Marrakech | Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesApril 18, 20184:13 pm CETBy Kait BolongaroIts a treaty about fish, but its largest implications regard the land.The draft text of a fishing agreement between the EU and Morocco being negotiated this week in Rabat includes a controversial provision that would extend the deal to waters adjacent to Western Sahara, a contested territory south of the North African country.Western Sahara is claimed both by Morocco and a pro-independence movement led by the Polisario Front. No other country recognizes Rabats sovereignty over the region, and the European Court of Justice ruled in February that a fishing agreement between the EU and Morocco would be invalid if applied to the waters off the territory s coast.AdvertisementAdvertisement Including Western Sahara in the agreement would lend legitimacy to Rabats claims to the territory, said聽P氓l Wrange, a law professor at Stockholm University. What is driving Morocco is 98 percent stanley cup poli stanley cup tical. The EU is perhaps n stanley termohrnek ot recognizing Moroccan sovereignty [over the region] but it is a de facto recognition of Moroccan c Hwyr UK moves to force rules on Apple and Google app stores
Dutch demand EU budget freeze in campaign to cut contributionsTHE Dutch government has called for an effective freeze on EU regional and agricultural spending as part of a campaign to cut its annual contributions to the Union budget by 600 million ecu.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInNovember 4, 19985:00 pm CETBy Tim JonesIn a move which is sure to infuriate Spain in particular, the left-right coalition in The Hague published a position paper this week insisting that Union budgetary spending should only increase in line with inflation between 2000 and 2006.This is in stark contrast to the European Commission proposal in its Agenda 2000 reform package, which is designed to ready the Union for enlargement to the East, to increase spending in line with economic growth.This means the projected expenditure in the Commission proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy and the structural fun stanley cup ds, which together account for over 80% of annual expenditure, must be reduced, says the Dut stanley thermos ch paper.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe gourde stanley Commission has proposed an increase in spending on agricultural subsidies from 45.2 billion ecu next year to 51.6 billion in 2006, including 3.6 billion ecu to prepare applicant countries for EU membership.But the Dutch paper calls for farm spending to be kept within the 40.4-billion-ecu ceiling set out in the Union 1998 budget and only increased in line with inflation up to the en |
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