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Significance
With this new policy, Madrid has abandoned a longstanding position of neutrality on Western Saharan independence from Morocco, a matter of great importance for many Spaniards across the political spectrum and one of strategic importance for Algeria.
Impacts
Morocco’s success in changing Spanish and German policy on Western Sahara could encourage a campaign to leverage other European states.
Believing that time is on its side, Morocco will drag out the peace process by slowing the momentum of the recently appointed UN envoy.
Algeria will keep supporting the Western Saharan independence movement’s renewed armed attacks against Rabat’s forces in the Sahara.
Keywords:
Morocco,
Western Sahara,
ME/NAF,
Spain,
Algeria,
EU,
Germany,
United States,
MOROCCO/WESTERN SAHARA,
international relations,
foreign policy,
energy
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