Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-12-15-Speech-4-333-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-12-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Tunisia: the case of Zakaria Bouguira2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20111215.29.4-333-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-12-15-Speech-4-334-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Rui Tavares2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2011-09-15--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; G/EFA (2011-06-24--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Independente (2011-06-30--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the day after tomorrow it will be a whole year since Mohamed Bouazizi’s fruit cart was confiscated in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, and he set himself alight in front of the town hall because of the humiliation he had suffered at the hands of the police. No one could have imagined what would happen in the Arab world within the space of a year, and what we have seen unfold before our eyes. The text that we have before us in this instance, about the case of Zakaria Bouguira, who protested against the police by testifying to an instance of police brutality, in a sense means that we have come full circle. We have come a long way in a year. That is why the Tunisian people do not call their revolution the Jasmine Revolution, but the Dignity Revolution: because over the course of a year we have gone from someone who had no other means of expression in the face of police brutality or police humiliation than self-immolation, to someone whose desire from his country’s politics is for dignity. What he wants is dignity for the citizen who protests and dignified treatment by the authorities. As for us, this should compel us to think outside the confines of this urgent case before Parliament. It should compel us to think that in Tunisia we have probably the best example of the new wave of Arab democracy and that we, on this side of the Mediterranean, where we have crises in southern Mediterranean countries, are not making use of the demographic dynamics, nor the economic dynamics, nor the political dynamics of these countries. We are only interested in closing borders and barring refugees from entering. I believe that we should, first and foremost, rethink our European policies, as a matter of urgency. I would like to lay down this challenge here."@en1
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