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"I welcome this report’s strong emphasis on closer collaboration between the EU and Tunisia, which this year mark 40 years of cooperation. However, our objective of helping Tunisia implement adequate reforms, boots employment and develop sustainable and inclusive growth will only materialise in a just and fair society. The EU must pay closer attention to the new Tunisian draft economic reconciliation law which may jeopardize this process. It offers no accountability, but blatant amnesty, for the many economic crimes committed against the Tunisian people, and its state. The victims are outraged, and civil society organisations are mobilizing against it. The law’s defenders argue that it is necessary to turn the page on the past in order to attract foreign investment. I fundamentally disagree. The corrupt must not escape justice. If they do, the promise of the Tunisian revolution will be lost. We in Europe have a duty to monitor this process carefully, as plans to implement an ambitious free trade agreement between the EU and Tunisia must not come at the expense of fairness. The democratic transition process in Tunisia is still a successful example of reform possible in the Arab World. We must ensure that it remains that way."@en1
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