French politicians and Members of the European Parliament (MEP), Nicolas Bay and Guillaume Peltier, denounced the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Wednesday for its decision last week to annul the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement, saying that “Western Sahara is Moroccan” and that the Kingdom is a reliable trade partner with the EU along the Mediterranean.
“By its decision, the CJEU deliberately undermines the trust relationship between Morocco and Europe,” Bay stated on his X account.
“The Court of Justice dismisses essential principles such as the sovereignty of nations and the historical continuity of their territories, deliberately undermining the trust between Morocco and the European Union in the common interest of improving economic relations,” he wrote.
The CJEU’s ruling stems from its 2021 ruling in favor of the Polisario Front which had claimed that the EU-Morocco agreements had been concluded without the consent of the Sahrawi people.
Many of Morocco’s EU partners have this week reiterated their commitment to the strategic partnership with the Kingdom, despite the CJEU ruling that rendered the agreements null and void.
In addition to France, the growing list of nations includes Spain, Belgium, Italy, Finland, Croatia, and Portugal.
Bay and Peltiers asserted that the Sahrawai people are “being held hostage by the fanatics of the Polisario front.”
“With the complicity of Algiers, the Polisario is diverting European humanitarian aid to continue its terrorist guerrilla warfare,” they said.
The two politicians were disappointed by the ruling of the CJEU, which they described as a “decision made on the basis of ideology, not rights.”
Morocco is “a friend and ally of France,” Bay said. “Our interlocutor is Rabat, not the militia of the Polisario Front in the service of Algeria.”