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"This resolution is another profession of faith in free trade. It insists ‘that the opening-up of markets and progressive integration into the EU’s internal market can be powerful instruments for the development of the southern Mediterranean countries and help alleviate the widespread poverty and unemployment which are at the root of economic, migratory and security problems in the region’. These are tired arguments that have been repeated under many different circumstances over the years, and which reality stubbornly resists. These arguments have even been made within the EU itself, where the opening up and capitalist integration of market economies with very different levels of development has led to increased inequality. Moreover, it does not refrain from using the rhetoric of the Arab Spring, forgetting the Moroccan regime’s continued repression of the Sahrawi people. It forgets the illegal occupation of the territory of Western Sahara. If forgets that even other countries which have signed similar trade agreements with Morocco, such as the US, explicitly provide for the exclusion of products originating in Western Sahara; something that the EU does not do. It is significant that Portuguese, Spanish and Italian Members from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), representing countries whose farmers will be most affected, have voted against this agreement, even though they have, on other occasions, extolled the wonders of free trade."@en1
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