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If you only read the resolution adopted today, you would tend to believe in the most genuine and benevolent intentions of the EU with regard to the ‘Union for the Mediterranean’. Its careful language reveals only a few hints of interference and the omnipresent objectives of the ‘establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean free-trade area’ and ‘free trade’, accompanied, of course, by ‘social’ and ‘environmental’ palliatives and rhetoric.
However, the European Commission makes it clear that ‘the Mediterranean region is an area of vital strategic importance to the European Union in both political and economic terms’. It talks about the ‘significant progress [that] has been made towards the establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean free-trade area by 2010’, pointing to the need for the EU’s Mediterranean partners to pursue ‘further and faster reforms’. The Commission puts forward a series of priorities such as transport (pointing to the possibility of setting up a concession scheme of interest to the private sector and accompanied by governmental measures to ensure free trade and abolish the various non-tariff obstacles preventing trade) and increasing the integration of the energy markets.
The EU wants to economically, politically and militarily control the whole Mediterranean region and is seeking to dominate its markets and exploit its immense resources.
That is capitalism, you fool!"@en1
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