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"Parliament today voted for a report on the EU trade and investment strategy for the Southern Mediterranean. This is yet another European Union report which still fails to learn any lessons from the citizens’ demands during what has come to be called the Arab Spring. In this report, relations between both sides of the Mediterranean remain mainly economic relations based on free trade. Niccolò Rinaldi (rapporteur of this liberal text) even dares to say that ‘Trade (…) facilitates a more equitable distribution of wealth’. He goes on to add that some Mediterranean countries ‘inherit large quantities of assets and natural resources’. Do we still need to ask ourselves who in fact exploits them? The EU is more anxious to protect the interests of its major companies than it is to see the wealth of these countries benefit the populations who brought about the revolution, first and foremost for social reasons. The Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance managed to include in this report the need to reconsider what is considered to be an odious debt. I therefore could not vote in favour of a report which is profoundly at odds with my view of international relations."@en1
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