While Tunisia by the revolutionary wave has hit Egypt, the European Union can not get beyond tepid statements. Too many, moreover, the interests at stake in the Mediterranean because Brussels may raise their voices against what threatens to become a real massacre. Even before the riots in Egypt, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (Emhtn) denounced in no uncertain terms the "closeness" of some EU states with the Tunisian regime.
Interests involving mainly the Mediterranean countries as Italy, Spain and France, intertwined with Tunis and trade agreements is to "keep under control illegal immigration." In the first row in France, for geographical position and historical and colonial reasons. Bruno Le Maire, the French Minister of Agriculture, said candidly: "Before you judge a foreign government must be familiar with the situation on the ground." Meanwhile on the field had already killed 66 demonstrators, a figure that has soared in the days following.
But Le Maire had no doubts: "President Ben Ali has often been found to be in the wrong way. The Tunisia is a country in need. " A few days later Ben Ali has been given to the bush. It is not the first time, moreover, that the EU countries in the Mediterranean trying to throw water on the North African outbreak, just think of attacking the camp of El Aaiun in Western Sahara by the Moroccan army in October, attack claimed dozens of lives.
At that time Spain and France have done everything possible to avoid a strong international condemnation. Morocco, like Tunisia are, in fact, the privileged interlocutors of the EU countries in the Mediterranean for fishing and immigration, the latter carried out under a quasi-monopoly.
The same French foreign minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, had publicly stated that "our first message should be friendship between the people of France and Tunisia. We should not give lessons to anyone, that Tunisia is a complex situation. " The fact is that after the warm statements of Lady Ashton, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, and Stefan Fule, EU Commissioner for Enlargement, on the "advanced state of negotiations, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which calls for "to revise the European Neighbourhood Policy also entering a human rights clause in all agreements with third countries." Emelie Doromzee Meanwhile, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, warns that the worst may yet to come.
"There's something big on the horizon - Matthieu warns of Emhtn Routier - Despite the censorship, the protesters are using the Internet and Facebook to organize. It is forming a real democratic movement in the Internet age, as happened in Iran. " According Emhtn, now it is no longer just a political or economic reasons, but the "respect for freedom of thought and expression." The "Wikileaks Revolution" could be just the beginning. 
Interests involving mainly the Mediterranean countries as Italy, Spain and France, intertwined with Tunis and trade agreements is to "keep under control illegal immigration." In the first row in France, for geographical position and historical and colonial reasons. Bruno Le Maire, the French Minister of Agriculture, said candidly: "Before you judge a foreign government must be familiar with the situation on the ground." Meanwhile on the field had already killed 66 demonstrators, a figure that has soared in the days following.
But Le Maire had no doubts: "President Ben Ali has often been found to be in the wrong way. The Tunisia is a country in need. " A few days later Ben Ali has been given to the bush. It is not the first time, moreover, that the EU countries in the Mediterranean trying to throw water on the North African outbreak, just think of attacking the camp of El Aaiun in Western Sahara by the Moroccan army in October, attack claimed dozens of lives.
At that time Spain and France have done everything possible to avoid a strong international condemnation. Morocco, like Tunisia are, in fact, the privileged interlocutors of the EU countries in the Mediterranean for fishing and immigration, the latter carried out under a quasi-monopoly.
The same French foreign minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, had publicly stated that "our first message should be friendship between the people of France and Tunisia. We should not give lessons to anyone, that Tunisia is a complex situation. " The fact is that after the warm statements of Lady Ashton, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, and Stefan Fule, EU Commissioner for Enlargement, on the "advanced state of negotiations, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which calls for "to revise the European Neighbourhood Policy also entering a human rights clause in all agreements with third countries." Emelie Doromzee Meanwhile, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, warns that the worst may yet to come.
"There's something big on the horizon - Matthieu warns of Emhtn Routier - Despite the censorship, the protesters are using the Internet and Facebook to organize. It is forming a real democratic movement in the Internet age, as happened in Iran. " According Emhtn, now it is no longer just a political or economic reasons, but the "respect for freedom of thought and expression." The "Wikileaks Revolution" could be just the beginning.
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