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The Western Sahara Fisheries Case in CJEU: An Extended Right to Self Determination for the People of the Western Sahara.
Abstract
In 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave a landmark judgement involving EU's action on a foreign territory, Western Sahara. CJEU held that the Saharawi people have to be among the beneficiaries of the money earned through fishing from the coastal water of the Western Sahara. The judgment is believed to be substantiating and complementary to the prior International Court of Justice's 1975 advisory opinion on the legal status of the territory of Western Sahara. This Article aims at analyzing the stand of EU's top international court as to whether the decision can be vital to revive the principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources (PSNR) and be used as an extention to the right to self-determination of the people of Western Sahara.