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"en.20000330.4.4-072"2
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"What you call a European Union ‘Mediterranean policy’ merely consists of creating the political conditions to allow the large industrial conglomerates of Europe to take advantage of the low wages, natural resources and government contracts of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, and secure new outlets for their products. That ‘cooperation’ is the cooperation of the wolf with the lamb, and the poor majority of the population only get the dubious advantage of being exploited for the benefit not just of local potentates, but of European businesses too.
For two centuries France’s Mediterranean policy consisted of the colonisation of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Italy’s was the occupation of Libya, and Britain’s the shameless looting of Egypt.
Voices have been rightly raised in this very House against the dictatorship that holds sway in Tunisia and the one that continues to rule in Morocco, even if it is more moderate. So why do we forget the material, military and diplomatic support France has given those regimes? Why do we forget France’s responsibility for the war it waged in Algeria and for the tragic situation that still exists in that country today?
Our solidarity is with the working classes of the Mediterranean region and that means we are opposed to the cooperation between owners and rulers promoted by this resolution."@en1
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