Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-04-06-Speech-3-709-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-04-06"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110406.40.3-709-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Christofer Fjellner2
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lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I am grateful that the Commission has chosen to present this review of the European Neighbourhood Policy’s Southern Dimension. It is certainly needed. We need to acknowledge that Europe has met dictatorships with tolerance rather than with tough demands for democracy. That has cost us in trust for Europe. We therefore need a new policy, a policy that will help to rebuild these countries after decades of misrule. Europe can do a great deal in this respect, above all, as the region’s most important trade partner. The best approach would probably be to invest precisely in this rebuilding and trade in order to regain the trust that we have lost. I am therefore pleased that the Commission is talking about the trade dimension in this communication – that we should increase market access for our North African neighbours in order to help them to use trade to bring them prosperity. However, it is currently the European customs barriers, particularly in the agricultural sector, that are a major obstacle to development. Take, for example, the minimum prices of agricultural products that mean that the more efficiently that fruit and vegetables are produced, the higher the duties are that have to be paid on them. That is an obstacle to development and prosperity. I would therefore like to propose that the first step the Commission could take is to give those countries in North Africa that have begun the journey towards democracy free market access in Europe. That is something we did for the Western Balkans following the war in Yugoslavia, and why not learn from this example? We are building Europe’s prosperity on free trade in Europe, so why not help our North African neighbours to build their prosperity on free trade with us?"@en1
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