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"Madam President, Commissioner, I would also like to thank the rapporteurs for their work. My parliamentary group tabled a large number of amendments. Not all of them were accepted, although we acknowledge that the document is much better than when it was first drafted. As you know, Mr Füle, our position on the neighbourhood policy is very critical, because the Arab Spring revealed it for what it was. The neighbourhood policy made the European Union a necessary collaborator with Ben Ali and Mubarak. We were not there and nobody expected us; it all happened without the European Union. We think that, on the issue of the neighbourhood policy, we should clear up once and for all whether compliance will ever be required with Article 2 of the association agreement, one of the neighbourhood policy instruments, which makes the agreement conditional on strict respect for human rights, and whether any association agreement will ever be frozen if a regime fails to comply with it. So far, this has never happened. We have gone through the experience of the Arab Spring, and right now we have a problem with some states, such as Morocco and Israel, with which we have association agreements. Morocco, which has an advanced statute, held elections with a voter participation rate of only 23% – just 23% – according to official figures. Morocco is unlawfully occupying part of the territory of Western Sahara. Will Article 2 be applied at some point? Are we ever going to use it, Mr Füle?"@en1
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