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"Despite its careful language, the report goes astray in terms of what it objectively and consciously omits or tries to hide: for example, its failure to denounce and condemn the systematic and brutal violation of international law and human rights by Israel – which is settling the occupied territories of Palestine and which is oppressing the Palestinian people – and by Morocco, which is settling the Western Sahara and oppressing the Sahrawi people.
The report conceals the EU’s unacceptable immigration policy and its inhuman, criminalising, security-focused and exploitative nature. In that respect, it accepts the provision in the agreements between the EU and the Mediterranean countries for ‘funding of immigration centres’.
On the other hand, the report does not hide the fact that the model advocated for the so-called ‘Union for the Mediterranean’ is ultimately the same as that of the EU itself, guided by liberalisation of the markets, including energy, and by capitalist competition, thus trying to ensure political and economic control by the major powers. It sets out the objective of the ‘creation of a … Euro-Mediterranean free trade area’ and not a ‘Euro-Mediterranean partnership … based on equality of treatment, solidarity, dialogue and respect for the specific asymmetries and characteristics of each country’, as we proposed in an amendment that we tabled.
That is why we voted against."@en1
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