On Wednesday, 12 July, French MEP Mounir Satouri (Greens/EFA) brought together a number of MEPs from other political groups and a civil society representative from the NGO EuroMed Rights, on the margins of the Strasbourg plenary session, to denounce the backslide in democracy in Tunisia as well as the arbitrary arrests of political opponents and the crackdown on judges.
As the European Commission prepares a financial agreement worth around €1 billion for Tunisia—part of which...