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"I voted against this report on the proposal for a Council decision to step up Morocco’s participation in EU programmes. The European Union justifies these proposals by claiming that greater cooperation with Morocco itself will result in better governance of the Euro-Mediterranean area. However, the EU’s inertia in the face of the problems of summer 2011, when thousands of illegal immigrants took advantage of the chaos in North Africa to cross the Mediterranean and flood over the coasts of Italy, shows that the numerous agreements that have so far been signed with our so-called ‘Mediterranean partners’ are totally worthless to the EU and are unable to ensure any kind of ‘Euro-Mediterranean governance’. Instead, the Mediterranean area seems to be ‘strategic’ only to the countries of North Africa, which are benefiting more and more from the unjustified concessions that the EU is signing over to them, while the Member States of the EU itself, and Italy most of all, are finding themselves increasingly stripped of their ability to protect their own territories, their trade and their rights. Secondly, the EU seems to take little notice of the fact that the Moroccan Government is still heavily involved in corruption on a vast scale. I voted against the conclusion of these agreements for the reasons given above."@en1
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