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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

France is launching a new policy for North Africa. Funds open to countries to reform

After the riots in the Arab world, there comes a mea culpa from France. Attempting to launch a new policy on the south shore of the Mediterranean. "For too long we thought that authoritarian regimes were the only bulwark against extremism in the Arab world - has accepted the Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, in a public meeting in Paris -.

For too long we have brandished the pretext of the Islamist threat to justify a certain complacency against governments that violate freedom and stifled the development of their countries. " Not surprisingly, Juppe has chosen to extend its olive branch at a meeting held at the Arab on the Spring Institute of the Arab world by Jean Nouvel, a lively cultural center in Paris and most obvious symbol of Arab political and cultural complexity of the universe .