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"Madam President, I think that these two countries and others in this region demonstrate how, on several occasions in recent years, Europe’s leaders have managed to be more on the side of business than on that of democracy, and more on the side of the dictators than on that of the poor.
I am frankly concerned about the current situation in Egypt and about today’s developments, so I believe that we must not show calm but must rather show solidarity. We must show solidarity with the millions of Egyptians in Cairo and throughout the country who are sick of hunger, sick of oppression and sick of unemployment. That is why we must say that we have to stand side by side with these people following President Mubarak’s speech today, following the regime’s releasing of its hounds, and following its clearing of the way for violence. We must not allow a strategy of fear to be created to make them go home.
If we had heard these suggestions 36 years ago in Portugal, we would have gone home. It is a good thing that we did not go home, because that meant we had a democratic revolution."@en1
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