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EPP vice-President Bonsignore to EuroFora: +EU, not only USA Ships between Sicelia-Libya !

Written by ACM
Wednesday, 09 March 2011


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While French President Nicolas Sarkozy's, a.o. EU Leaders, call for a special EU Summit to urgently decide on a new European Policy for the Mediteranean, was just starting to apparenty produce some 1st hopeful results, with EU President Van Rompoy apparently focusing with Energy to organize, the same Day, both an EU and a €uroZone Summits in Brussels,  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
One of the most far reaching MEPs' reactions on the Mediterranean Crisis was that of vice-President of EPP Group, Italian mainstream MEP Vito Bonsignore, who cried his indignation,at a Press Conference together with the Head of the Italian EPP Delegation Mario Mauro, in EU Parliament in Strasbourg, : : - "I can't stand to see, even from Sicilia,  right in front of the Libyan cities where People are currently hit by bombs, only USA Military Navy Carriers crossing the Mediterranean Sea  : If Barroso (EU Commission's President) hasn't got any Carriers, then, let him go buy some !", stressed Bonsignore.

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The closest terrestrial link between Libya and the Western Word obviously faces EU Member Country's Southernest region of Sicelia, in the Middle of the Mediterranean Sea, which is already linked with a Pipeline to Tunisia.

+ Speaking afterwords to "EuroFora", Bonisgnore explained that such unacceptable Facts make obvious EU's need to develop a real European Defence, able to be active at least at its close Neighborhood. According to the EPP's vice-President, an EU Civic Protection Force and/or any eventual EU act which woud be limited only to Humanitarian matters, woud not be enough, nor stand at the level of the seriousness of the current Crisis.
    
French mainstream MEP, Chairman of EU Pariament's Security and Defence Committee, Arnould Danjean, also stressed, in this occasion, that EU obviously needed to boost its "Dual, Civil and Military Capacities", in order to be able to act and face such Humanitarian and Security Urgencies.

But, the Experienced former EU Expert at the former Yugoslavian conflict, also warned that, at any case, EU must avoid to get trapped in a kind of "Bosnian" negative precedent, where, f.ex.,  even armed Soldiers, with a too restrictif UN Mandate, couldn't even prevent a Massacre from taking place right in front of their noses...  

              Meanwhile, however, such bad Experiences made France, but also Germany, Italy and other EU Member States to deeply negotiate an adequate UNO Mandate in order to accept to lead the 2006 International Peace-keeping Operation at Lebanon's borders with Israel, which apparently succeeded to stabilize that area.
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     The incredible superficiality with which some 3rd Mediterranean Countries' Heads of State/Government, often treat P litical Dissidents, is revealing, at least in the case of Libya, as also of Turkey, :

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Thus, Colonel Kaddafi's incredible Failure to distinguish between an "Al Quaida" Extremist Islamist and ...a USA-Educated professional intellectual or a Minister for Privatisation with many EU/US links, (etc), can now explain, at last, how he had recently also confused between someone whose personal sacrifices deserve a "Human Rights Award", with a ruthless, carrierist Politician in the notoriously anti-Democratic Turkish regime, such as Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan...
 
German Chancellor Merkel recently stressed Internet Communications' contributions to Democratic upheavals in 3rd Mediterranean Countries, at the same occasion that she observed Turkey's abundant Internet links, asking Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to augment them, while EU Parliament's Resolution on Turkey denounces Serious Violations against Freedom of Speech including at the Internet, with prosecution and/or e-Aggresions against critical Websites, etc..  

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    - "Europe must be liberated from this undermining "wooden talk" of a "unique thought" which hampers democratic debates", stressed incoming EU Chairman, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking to Journalists after his official meeting with EU Commission's President, Jose Barroso, at Elysee Palace in Paris

    - "It's precisely because there are not enough Debates, that EU hasn't managed yet to make it clear to European citizens what is really at stake", he added, in an obvious reference to the latest Irish "No" in 2008, after a long series of similar, unprecedented events, from the 1st Majority Abstention to EU Parliament's Elections in 1999, repeated in 2004, to the Dutch and French "No" in 2005, etc.


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          In fact, "there is no time to lose for Europe, and that's why we decided to start the French EU Presidency right away, from the first day", he explained, on France's exceptional choice to schedule the usual meeting with EU Commission from the 1st day of the 1st month, instead of the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th or even 10th or 11th, as it had been done by others in the Past..    


    - "This is not an easy period, but we shall act with determination, while also listening to Citizens' views", he promised.

    Sarkozy's move came shortly before his opening Speech, next week in EU Parliament in Strasbourg, for the first Public Debate on the Priorities of the French EU Presidency (July - December 2008), and that's one of the reasons for which he significantly opened his EU Council's Chairmanship by welcoming at Elysee palace EU Parliament's President, German MEP Hans Gert Poettering at first..

    The incoming EU Chairman was replying to Press Questions about rumours that controversial British EU Commissioner on Trade, Mandelson, was alone to drop an invitation to have a working Diner at Elysee palace, together with all other EU Commissioners and the French Government, only because he would have been upset for some critical points made earlier by President Sarkozy in defense of European Agriculture vis-a-vis its Foreign competitors.

    But, as smiling Sarkozy played down Mandelson's reported refusal to debate, saying that he had to visit Marseille for a Ministerial meeting on Trade the next morning, and that "all our British friends are always welcome to taste a nice diner" in France, perhaps at another occasion..

    - "It's urgent to win anew the trust of the People" : Lately, "the European ideal lost its momentum. Since several years, whenever Citizens are questioned on Europe, they react with reserves : They even have .. a tendency to reply "NO".. After this 3rd "No" of a People in some years, there is an Urgency to convince", added French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, after a meeting earlier the same day of all Ministers with EU Commissioners, followed by an interview with Barroso

    "According to recent Polls, only 30% of French people believe that the European construction is a source of hope. It's only a poll, but we all now quite well, that, since 2005, it's dangerous to neglect these alarming signals, as it would be dangerous to treat with contempt the Irish "No", Fillon warned.

    "We all have a common duty to prove to the European Citizens who have doubts, that EU is more useful, more necessary, than ever" : And "that EU can take decisions needed in order to respond to European or Global challenges", the Prime Minister concluded.

    - "We believe, together with President Sarkozy, that EU should open debates on all issues of direct, concrete interest to Citizens", confirmed later to EuroFora the Head of France's governing party (UMP), Patrick Devedjan, after his speech to the European People's party (EPP) Study Days in Paris (2 - 4 July 2008).

    He didn't deny that one of them is Turkey : - "Public Opinion in France is very much unfavorable to Turkey's EU bid, and President Sarkozy has said that several times", he told EuroFora.

    From European Central Bank's controversial policies on Euro's value, to EU Enlargement Strategy, etc., issues of obvious importance to EU Citizens will be plenty, next week in EU Parliament in Strasbourg, before President Sarkozy launches the debates on EU 2008 French chairmanship's priorities on Thursday.

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