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"Mr President, Egypt is in the grip of the Arab Winter. The extreme salafists have now become the second largest party in the country and are assuming a dominant, pivotal position. Respect for law has not increased. We all witnessed that in Port Said. Dozens of spectators were killed at that football match and the police just stood by watching.
The Arab Spring was brief and has now turned into a winter. There are so many places there where violence prevails and where law is losing its grip: Alexandria, where only last year many Copts were murdered, Cairo, where, in May last year, people were killed in an arson attack on a church, Al Hammadi, which, on the surface, appears peaceful, but where the Copts are oppressed on a daily basis. I call on the Egyptian authorities and the Egyptian Parliament to make use of the support offered by Europe. Allow observers at the upcoming presidential elections. Allow aid organisations that want to work on agricultural projects into the country. Things have to change in that respect in the coming elections.
My call to Baroness Ashton is: make it clear to the Egyptian leaders that Europe is committed to religious freedom and human rights. Europe is offering several hundreds of millions of money in aid. We should not be afraid to use that as a lever."@en1
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