Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-03-Speech-4-401-000"
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"en.20110203.25.4-401-000"2
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"The Egyptian people are out on the streets at the moment to make their voices heard, just a few weeks after a similar scene in Tunisia. The situation in the Arab countries is being compared by analysts to that in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. History is repeating itself 20 years later, with hundreds of thousands of people coming out on the streets. The European Union must express its solidarity with the peoples in the Arab countries who are on the streets now or have been. However, it is important that the motivation for coming out on the streets is driven by legitimate democratic aspirations and the need to improve social and living conditions. With its democratic tradition, the EU must condemn the acts of repression and disproportionate use of force by law enforcement, which has led to fatalities. The democratic process in these countries where the situation is still uncertain must be supported with conviction. Indeed, the European Union has a great duty in this regard. The necessary conditions must be created now for organising free elections, along with the adoption of democratic constitutions which will guarantee freedom of expression, political pluralism and the principle of electivity. The EU’s High Representative must play an active role in assessing the needs of these countries which are undergoing radical transformations because they do not have the practical experience of democracy."@en1
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