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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8264

27 July 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/tunisia
De Rossa asks whether or not Association Agreement should be suspended - Human rights lawyer Radhia Nasraoui is invited to Parliament

Brussels, 26/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - MEP Proinsias de Rossa (Labour, Ireland), who has recently returned from his trip to Tunisia, said he felt there were grounds for examining "the extent to which Tunisia is in breach of Article 2 of the Agreement which stipulates that Tunisia must fully respect internationally agreed human rights standards and whether or not the Agreement should be suspended". Mr de Rossa said he was speaking "on the basis of the information provided" to him "by over 30...

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