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Mr President, Algeria’s history has not made it an ideal breeding ground for democracy, human rights and a free press. The country was liberated after a very violent war of independence against the French colonial power, which lasted for many years, only for its budding democracy to be toppled by Boumedienne’s
. After years of stagnation that resulted from that, elections were called; had they not been cancelled, they would have been won by Islamic fundamentalists. Since then, the country has been ruled by the military and bureaucrats who combine their fear of fundamentalism with an Arabic nationalism that is hostile to the Berber minority and turns its back on 130 years of French cultural influence.
The Neighbourhood Policy that the European Union intends to develop cannot be indifferent. It would be a big mistake if we turned a blind eye to such fundamental rights as the freedom of expression of opinion and information. At the next exchange with the Algerian parliament, we must at least bring up the measures against newspapers and journalists. I hope that the Council and the Commission will rate human rights more important than gas supplies and other economic interests."@en1
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