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Mr President, it is clear that the situation in Tunisia as regards human rights continues to be very serious, not least where freedom of expression is concerned. Both international and local human rights organisations, unfortunately, report an increasing number of cases of concern. This must be the starting point for our assessment and our policy, where human rights are taken as the key priority.
The Commission will continue closely to monitor developments and will use all the means at its disposal to improve the situation. For instance, I hope that the EU-Tunisia sub-committee on human rights and democracy will soon be up and running. Tunisia has already informally stated that individual cases will be raised, notably in the framework of its political dialogue meetings with the European Union.
It is evident that a dialogue on human rights must also include individual cases. I have some experience on this as regards the candidate countries, where it is linked to our rigorous conditionality. The application of conditionality is essential for the use of the ‘soft’ power that the European Union has at its disposal.
I hope that conditions can be established for a fair and smooth implementation of the MEDA project on modernisation of the judiciary, to which there was a reference, a project for which we have a budget of EUR 22 million. That would be an important step forward in enhancing reform and modernisation of the judiciary through the MEDA programme."@en1
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