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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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