Polisario Leader’s Potential EU-AU Summit Attendance Strains Morocco-Europe Relations

According to sources in Brussels, Brahim Ghali could travel to the European capital to participate in the sixth European Union-African Union summit to be held on February 17 and 18, 2022, reports Maghreb Intelligence. With its diplomatic relays, Morocco is trying to undermine the participation of the separatist leader in this important meeting, add the same sources. The argument put forward: as a strategic partner of the European Union, Rabat would not accept the presence of the head of the independence movement at this summit. Moreover, Morocco would have threatened to reduce the level of its representation at this meeting to the strict minimum.

The possible participation of Brahim Ghali in the next EU-AU summit could be a source of tension between Morocco and Europe. The admission of the Polisario boss to a hospital in Logroño, not far from Saragossa, under the borrowed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, of Algerian nationality, had provoked tensions between Madrid and Rabat. Tensions that are struggling to be conjugated in the past.