Following the United Nations-sponsored dispute over "Sahara," in which Morocco considers that the European Union is a party to its crisis, tensions have begun between Morocco and some European Union States.

According to experts, Morocco had been granting preference and privileges to European Union States over the past years in trade agreements and in many respects, but recent European Union positions had led Morocco to wave a change of strategies.

On 15 November, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bouretta confirmed that his country would not accept any agreement with the European Union that would undermine Moroccan sovereignty.

According to Moroccan sources, Morocco was in the process of signing agreements with other States outside the European Union, thus denying the latter the privileges that member States had been receiving in partnership with Rabat.

The sources confirmed that the Royal Foundation had instructed it to diversify the partnership and not to sign any new agreements that did not provide for Morocco's full sovereignty over its territory.

It should be noted that, at the end of last September, the European Court of Justice decided to cancel the Partnership and Fishing Conventions between the European Union and Morocco, covering the coast and products of the Sahara Territory, following a complaint by the Frente POLISARIO. The Court based its decision on the fact that the two Conventions were signed "without the consent of the people of Western Sahara," according to it.