Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-02-Speech-1-160"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-06-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:MEDA 20002
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030602.11.1-160"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-02-Speech-1-1612
lpv:speaker	lp:Véronique De Keyser2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (2001-09-25--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (2001-09-25--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Piétrasanta and I worked together in perfect cooperation: you will not therefore be surprised to hear the same points stressed again in the few comments that I would like to make. Of the various points made by the AFET Committee in its opinion, two seemed to us to be particularly important. The first – and you have reassured us, Commissioner – was the need to ensure that the democracy clause in the association agreements is respected and the need to carry out regular and transparent checks on the impact of the MEDA programme on human rights, and this on the basis of an annual report provided by the Commission in accordance with clear criteria, a precise agenda and training in this field for European officials. The second point was the importance of establishing an open and tolerant civil society in these Mediterranean countries, in particular by supporting the independence of small NGOs, and in this respect the AFET Committee regrets the fact that so few Mediterranean countries have been selected in the horizontal democracy programmes under the EIDHR and that, for example, neither Morocco nor Egypt, where civil society is active yet still fragile, will benefit. This was and still is Europe’s vision of a transition towards more democracy in the countries of the Mediterranean, a transition supported by MEDA funding, by various different instruments, but also by a dialogue, in the form of a forum today and perhaps a Euro-Mediterranean parliamentary assembly tomorrow. The report was presented in March 2003. A few days later war broke out in Iraq: it represented another vision of the democratic transition, a brutal and tragic vision that many people do not share. The Euromed dialogue is struggling to recover from this war. It will take more than a MEDA programme to get it back on track. Let us hope that the adoption of the Middle East roadmap by the Quartet will be the first step towards doing so and a genuine sign of hope."@en1

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