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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10493

11 November 2011
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
EU relations with arab spring countries: principles that need to be respected

Let's not over-dramatise regrets or criticism. Europe has given such unflinching support to the burgeoning freedom and democracy growing on the southern side of the Mediterranean (partly out of remorse for the previous line it had taken) that it must avoid over-dramatising the criticism and regrets regarding the results from the first free elections that did not coincide with what it would have wished. These countries have cast their vote and made their choice. The EU must now define its...

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