Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-02-16-Speech-4-344-500"
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"This motion for a resolution on the EU-Morocco agreement concerning reciprocal liberalisation measures on agricultural products, processed agricultural products, fish and fisheries products, sets out the points behind my negative view of concluding the agreement. I believe in the democratic reforms that Morocco has been implementing. However, the recent events which resulted in the Arab Spring have demonstrated that the EU approach should have been substantially different. I also believe that trade liberalisation and the gradual integration of Morocco with the EU will serve as tools for developing the economies of the southern Mediterranean. However, I cannot vote in favour of an agreement for which there has not been any study of the environmental, social and economic impact, which does not require the same phytosanitary conditions, and for which numerous instances of fraud in the tariff agreements have been reported. Moreover, there is the dispute in the United Nations over the region of Western Sahara, which should not be included in this agreement, since it is not Moroccan territory. I abstained from the vote on this motion for a resolution, not because I am against liberalising the trade in agricultural products, but because I am against this agreement itself."@en1
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