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"Madam President, I am voting for the new approach that Commissioner Füle has sought to bring to the European Neighbourhood Policy, and I would like to congratulate my colleagues, Mr David and Mr Siwiec, for the excellent recommendations in their report, which strengthen the focus of the European Neighbourhood Policy on the relationship between peoples, rather than the relationship between governments. That is the only way for the European Union to be consistent and effective in promoting human rights, democracy and, ultimately, in ensuring development and stability in its neighbouring areas, whether to the east or the south.
This clearly means that there needs to be conditionality, as the rapporteurs have pointed out. This should be smart conditionality which is intelligently applied, putting pressure on governments and encouraging the behaviour that we want, but which, above all, gives greater power to the people, instead of sacrificing more of it. Parliament cannot fail to evaluate this conditionality, and it is bound to have a bearing on the issues of human rights, democracy, the rule of law, good governance and combating corruption as elements in its evaluation.
There can be no neighbourhood policy that represents a partnership with society unless women’s empowerment is put at the centre of this policy. This is equally valid in both the east and the south. The EU cannot fail to give them visibility due to the role that they have played in the revolutions in the Arab world."@en1
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