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"The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a highly important policy. It should be emphasised that, in the resolution on this issue, explanatory point B now includes the rather vague formulation ‘the EU-ENP should be value-based’. It is not clear from this vague formulation how individual EU countries will cover the unpaid debts of the Gaddafi regime, nor is it clear whether tacit support for the various Islamic groupings that have grown far stronger in the recent elections in the Arab states of the Maghreb is the answer. A question arises as to what values will be promoted by the Union as a whole, and what values will be promoted by individual states. The creation of Euro-Mediterranean Erasmus and Leonardo da Vinci programmes is clearly a positive step. It is not clear from the resolution as a whole, however, whether the policy towards neighbouring states in the immediate future will be based on EU openness towards these partners, or on looking for ways to strengthen the external borders of ‘fortress Schengen’. It is very noticeable that the resolution makes no criticism whatsoever of dictatorial aspects of the regime in Georgia, and has somehow overlooked the constant procrastination over declaration of a Palestinian state. The parts relating to Belarus overstep the boundaries of good taste by meddling in the internal affairs of a neighbouring state, while skating over many negative aspects of Turkish foreign policy, for example, on the occupied area of Cyprus. For these reasons, the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left cannot support this motion for a resolution."@en1

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