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Western Sahara Resource Watch
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We research and campaign the companies and governments that work for Moroccan interests in occupied Western Sahara. www.wsrw.org
💔 Lost by ONE vote.
@Europarl_EN
has backed #Morocco’s push to twist #EU marketing standards - at the expense of EU law, consumers, and the people of #WesternSahara.
Full story 👇
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | Parliament greenlights Morocco’s labelling grab
EU lawmakers today had a golden opportunity to stand up for European consumers -  and chose not to take it, with a one (!) vote margin.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🚨 BREAKING: French farmers have stormed & blocked #Azura’s warehouse in Perpignan - the main #EU entry point for produce from occupied #WesternSahara - and have now launched legal action over alleged import-fraud.
Growing pressure on the EU–Morocco deal.
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | Farmers block Azura warehouse in France and launch legal action
Growing pressure on EU–Morocco trade deal as French farmers today launch legal steps and storm Azura’s entry point for Western Sahara produce in Perpignan. 
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November 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🔴 Green hydrogen or #greenwashing?
Swedish firm S2H2+Bm refuses to clarify the location of its planned investment: #Morocco or occupied #WesternSahara?
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | S2H2+Bm silent on location of planned green hydrogen project
Swedish company S2H2+Bm Concept AB has so far refused to clarify whether its planned green hydrogen plant will be located in Morocco proper or in occupied Western Sahara.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🚨 Unprecedented unity in @europarl.europa.eu #Agriculture
Committee: every political group criticised the @ec.europa.eu's derogation allowing #Morocco to re-label produce from occupied #WesternSahara.

EU law is clear - the origin must be Western Sahara.

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Western Sahara Resource Watch | Commission under fire for Western Sahara origin derogation
Representatives from all political groups in the European Parliament today grilled the European Commission over bending EU rules to appease Morocco with regard to labelling of products from occupied W...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
MEPs to grill @ec.europa.eu on its latest attempt to fold occupied #WesternSahara into the EU-Morocco trade framework.
#Saharawi consent is still missing, and EU obligations are still being ignored.
www.euractiv.com/news/meps-to...
MEPs to grill European Commission over tweaks to EU-Morocco pact | Euractiv
The EU executive is pushing preferential tariffs and wants products to be labelled with Moroccan regional names rather than with ‘Western Sahara’
www.euractiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The certification scheme #GlobalGAP that claims to champion legal compliance has circulated misleading information about #EU labelling rules for products originating from occupied #WesternSahara. wsrw.org/en/news/glob...
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚨 Fake maps and origin claims - all wiped within 48 hours of our inquiry.
Anima/Sofruce, the importer we exposed this week for mislabelling cherry tomatoes from occupied #WesternSahara, has been busily scrubbing its website.
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | Retail giant quietly deletes fake information
French agri-supplier Sofruce deleted false territorial claims and certificate references after scrutiny.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
What does #UNSC Resolution 2797 really mean for #WesternSahara?
Hint: not what #Morocco’s PR machine claims.
Self-determination remains the legal baseline - even as the Council's imbalance raises serious concerns.
Our breakdown👇
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | UN’s Western Sahara vote raises more questions than it answers
Behind the headlines and diplomatic spin suggesting that the Security Council is now siding with Morocco lies a more complex reality - one that hinges on the very right that Rabat has spent decades tr...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🚨 French supermarket sells #WesternSahara products labelled with #Morocco’s imposed administrative divisions - a confusion created by the @ec.europa.eu's rushed attempt to adapt EU rules to Morocco’s occupation.
EU law still requires “Western Sahara”.
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | EU’s labelling chaos already hitting supermarkets
A packet of cherry tomatoes sold this week in a French supermarket illustrates the confusion triggered by the European Commission’s rushed attempt to adapt EU consumer and trade rules to Morocco’s cla...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The certification system Marintrust greenwashes multimillion-euro fisheries products from occupied #WesternSahara - under false country of origin.
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | MarinTrust certifies irresponsible fisheries in occupied waters
The certification system greenwashes multimillion-euro fisheries products from occupied Western Sahara - under false country of origin. 
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November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Wonderful & responsible decision by Uruguayan-Austrian certification company LSQA which abstains from further work for #GLOBALGAP in occupied #WesternSahara due to the occupation.
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | Uruguayan-Austrian certification firm withdraws from Western Sahara
The certification company LSQA has ceased all activity in Western Sahara, where it had previously certified Moroccan producers operating in the occupied territory. 
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November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
📌 New study shows the #EU’s legal ambiguity over occupied #WesternSahara is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for the #Saharawi people, as their rights continue to be ignored in EU‐Morocco agreements despite mounting legal precedents.
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EU ambiguity on Western Sahara frozen conflict is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for Sahrawis, study shows
The European Union’s legal ambiguity on the Western Sahara frozen conflict is an increasingly glaring source of vulnerability for Sahrawis, a new study shows. The lack of an EU firm position on the no...
news.exeter.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Whatever happened to Enel’s Tiskrad wind farm in occupied #WesternSahara?
Ten years on, the project’s gone silent - no updates, no mention in reports, and
@EnelGroup won’t say why.
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | Enel dodges question on project in occupied territory
A decade after it was first announced, the fate of one of Enel’s wind farms in occupied Western Sahara remains uncertain.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Recommended read: "The upshot of the #EU’s policy in practice is to provide economic sustenance and symbolic legitimacy to a situation that is widely regarded as unlawful under international law: Morocco’s occupation of #WesternSahara."
www.ejiltalk.org/how-not-to-t...
How Not to Trade with Occupying Powers: Western Sahara and the Amendment to the EU-Moroccan Association Agreements
On October 3 2025, the EU and Morocco concluded an amendment (‘the amendment’) to the EU-Mediterranean Agreement (‘the association agreement’). With the approval of the Council it is already being app...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A rare glimpse into how legal firms justify doing business in occupied #WesternSahara.
Global Diligence’s recent seminar exposed the legal acrobatics used to defend work for the occupier - and our new article dismantles each claim, point by point.
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | Global Diligence defends operations on occupied land
The legal advisory firm Global Diligence, which presents itself as expert on ‘heightened due diligence’, misrepresents international law in occupied Western Sahara.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🔴“Totally unacceptable.”

MEPs slam @ec.europa.eu for bypassing @europarl.europa.eu
to push a new EU-Morocco deal that covers occupied #WesternSahara - ignoring CJEU rulings and democratic scrutiny.

Read MEPs' reactions here! 👇

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Western Sahara Resource Watch | MEPs shocked by Commission's Western Sahara bypass
In a hearing at the European Parliament earlier this week, lawmakers expressed outrage at how the Commission sidestepped them to push through a new agreement covering occupied Western Sahara, in viola...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🇪🇺 Spain’s fruit and vegetable exporter federation FEPEX is urging the @europarl.europa.eu to reject the new EU–Morocco trade deal covering #WesternSahara, saying it breaches two CJEU rulings and harms EU producers.
www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/fe...
Fepex sounds warning over new EU agreement with Morocco
Federation says it will cause a sharp increase in fruit and vegetable exports from the North African country
www.fruitnet.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Bravo! MEPs urge ‪EU Parliament President Metsola to rebuke @ec.europa.eu for:
1️⃣ Pushing a Morocco deal before Parliament's consent
2️⃣ Ignoring ECJ rulings
3️⃣ Rewarding Morocco’s illegal occupation of #WesternSahara
The EU can’t defend #RuleOfLaw while breaking it.
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MEPs urge European Parliament President to act on controversial trade agreement with Morocco - Enhedslisten.EU
MEP Per Clausen has taken the initiative to a cross-party letter that asks the EP's President to act on the trade agreement with Morocco.
enhedslisten.eu
October 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🎬 This powerful documentary by Cogito on #WesternSahara goes well beyond the headlines, including on the role of the territory's resources in the conflict, the EU’s complicity and the legal reality that it is not Moroccan territory.
A must watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2h...
Western Sahara "The Worst Police State I've Ever Seen"
YouTube video by Cogito
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October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🔴 The @ec.europa.eu is railroading a new Morocco trade deal that betrays democracy, farmers and the Saharawis' right to self-determination.
With @confpaysanne.bsky.social, we call on @europarl.europa.eu to stop it - for Europe, Morocco & #WesternSahara.
www.confederationpaysanne.fr/actu.php?id=...
Accord UE-Maroc : la Commission européenne s'obstine dans la voie du libre-échange
La Commission européenne a officialisé ce 6 octobre, aux forceps, la conclusion d'un nouvel accord UE-Maroc. Il y a un an, la CJUE nous a donné raison, suite à notre action en justice en déclarant ill...
www.confederationpaysanne.fr
October 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🚨 EU set to adopt a #Morocco trade deal for occupied #WesternSahara before the weekend.
Yet the text is still not public - unlike other sensitive files (e.g. suspended #Israel trade concessions were published next day).
Democracy? Transparency? Missing.
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | EU pushes secretive Morocco trade deal covering Western Sahara
As EU ambassadors give their green light to a new Morocco trade deal, the public is still denied access to the very agreement they are voting on - a striking case of secrecy in Brussels.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🇪🇺🍅 Spanish farmers’ union #COAG blasts the new EU–Morocco trade deal covering #WesternSahara:
👉 “The Commission mocks farmers, consumers, the CJEU and the Saharawi people.”
Unfair competition + zero respect for rulings = a deal built on injustice.
www.coagandalucia.com/2025/09/30/a...
¡Aquí hay tomate! La Comisión Europea, a carcajada limpia - COAG Andalucía
¡Aquí hay tomate! La Comisión Europea, a carcajada limpia
www.coagandalucia.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🚨 TODAY: EU Member States vote on a trade deal covering occupied #WesternSahara - rushed through after mere days of scrutiny.
It will take effect despite 10 CJEU rulings, and without Saharawi or @europarl.europa.eu consent.
This isn’t rule-of-law. It’s rubber-stamping occupation.
October 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🚨 Growing backlash in Europe as the #EU rushes a new trade deal in occupied #WesternSahara.
📅 Member states' vote is tomorrow.
We’re tracking the reactions here ⬇️
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Western Sahara Resource Watch | "A declaration of war" - new EU agreement reactions
A wave of reactions is rippling across Europe following the news that the EU is moving ahead with a new trade agreement in occupied Western Sahara. The vote is scheduled for tomorrow.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Western Sahara Resource Watch
EU scrambles to save Morocco deal with controversial Western Sahara clause
EU scrambles to save Morocco deal with controversial Western Sahara clause
After the EU's top court ruled that the deal breached the principle of self-determination, Brussels was given 12 months to comply
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September 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM