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The interest and concern displayed by the rapporteur on the human rights and democracy clause in European Union agreements are worthy of commendation.
Ten years after it was first drafted, the time has now come to evaluate how it has been implemented and how it can be improved, and there is one aspect, to my mind, that our evaluation should make clear: the impact of this provision needs to be assessed. I welcome the fact that the EU includes this clause and deems it one of the guiding principles of external and cooperation policy. That being said, if this simply becomes a mantra repeated in all our agreements, and fails to make a genuine difference, especially when its terms are violated, it will of course be worthless. The idle repetition of good intentions is a cause of mistakes and failures in international policy."@en1
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