The last-minute solution to the agreement with Morocco stirs up the Spanish agricultural sector

The last-minute solution by the European Union (EU) to save the agreement with Morocco and comply with the ruling that annuls it stirs up the agricultural sector and revives a decades-long rejection, due to the strong competition from products such as tomatoes, especially with the Spanish southeast. The alternative approved by the EU countries almost at the deadline set by the community judges to cancel the trade agreement, October 4, aims to provisionally guarantee the continuity of a pact of high diplomatic value, but for the agricultural sector it is "a patch" and even "dangerous." The EU Court of Justice annulled exactly one year ago the agricultural and fisheries agreements with Morocco for ruling that they contravened the interests of the populations of Western Sahara; the fisheries agreement was already suspended, but the agricultural one was granted a 12-month extension. The agricultural organizations and cooperatives, in Spain and in the committee that represents them in ...