In December 2016, the European Court of Justice reaffirmed that Morocco had no sovereignty over Western Sahara.
Therefore, the EU-Morocco trade agreement had been illegally applied to that territory.
This ruling, a mere statement of fact, brought the frozen conflict of Western Sahara to the forefront of the EU agenda, after more than four decades of European passivity or even discreet c...
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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.