"...When it comes to products from Palestine and
Western Sahara, there is a clear double standard in the European Union’s
behavior, and it’s eroding its credibility across the board,” said Erik
Hagen, a Norwegian geographer and activist and former chair of Western
Sahara Resource Watch, an advocacy group.
Trade agreements
signed in 2000 and 2012 between Morocco and the EU include no mention
of occupied land. Yet in 2012, the EU Foreign Affairs Council issued
a blanket guideline requiring that “all agreements between the State of
Israel and the EU must unequivocally and explicitly indicate their
inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.”
Products from Western Sahara are sold with a
“Made in Morocco” label in the same Danish supermarkets where products
from the West Bank are marked as originating in Israeli settlements,
according to Morten Nielsen, a Danish journalist active in efforts to
raise awareness about Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara..."
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