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"I voted against the European Parliament, which supports the conclusions of the Council on the regional convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin in matters of trade. The report identifies a series of real problems with trade between the EU and the rest of the Mediterranean, including the privileged treatment accorded to Israel, which sells products originating in the Occupied Territories. However, I believe the text does not go far enough to ensure the equal treatment of all partners. Discrimination persists against Palestine, so it is concluded that the agreements should simply be frozen. Such discrimination is unacceptable for a European Union which claims to give lessons to the whole world in matters of democracy and human rights. I would venture to add that even from a purely liberal point of view, this does not work, because according to their core principles, commercial equality should be the rule. They do not even respect the basis of their own ideology, or rather, they are determining the rules according to the interests at stake, as always."@en1
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