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"Mr Rinaldi’s report is very ambitious and gives us a chance to reflect on the effects – and also the causes – of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. In contrast to the rapporteur, however, I think the view that has been set out is too optimistic and that many of the proposed measures are more pertinent to development cooperation than to international trade.
The growing instability and increasingly extremist political trends which are increasingly being seen in countries such as Egypt and Libya prevent me from sharing in the overall feeling of confidence over the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ and the rather premature comparison, in my view, with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The ‘more for more’ principle should be at the heart of EU policy on Mediterranean countries and any increase in European contributions ought to be dependent on real reforms designed to bring about thoroughgoing democracy in these countries. Only then will we be able to discuss a possible review of tariff barriers."@en1
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