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Moroco Parliament Speaker Ghellab to EuroFora:High Speed Train Bridge Africa-Europe +Democracy links

Written by ACM
Tuesday, 25 June 2013

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 *Strasbourg/Council of Europe/Angelo Marcopolo/- Morocco, which is the 1st South Mediterranean Country to be linked to CoE with a "Partnership for Democracy" status, has the Ambition to develop both its Economic/High Tech. and its Democratic/Human Rights Values' links with Europe, replied, in substance, to "EuroFora"s questions the Speaker of Morocco Parliament, Karim Ghellab.

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Significantly, during an earlier Debate in CoE's Parliamentary Assembly's Plenary on the 1st Evaluation Report of this New Status, drafted by the President of the biggest political Group, that of ChristianDemocrats/EPP, Italian MEP Luca Volonté, several mainstream MEPs from various EU Countries pointed at the  obvious "Strategic" importance of Morocco, (which is also the only Arab Country to have succeeded to keep direct links to the Arab Civilisation, since it fought hard for its Liberty and Independence  was never Occupied by the Ottoman-Turk Empire, which destroyed it everywhere else, also its famous Architectrual Heritage reminds.

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Replying positively to an "EuroFora" Question about an eventual prospect for a  High Speed Train link between the South Mediteranean coast and Europe, (as UK and France, as well as Denmark and Sweden, already have). which could serve along S. Mediterranean Coasts and/or towards a series of Capital Cities accross Africa's Atlantic coasts,

President Ghellab stressed that, indeed, such a Project Exists already, i.e. to build a Modern Bridge between Morocco and Spain, for a High Speed Train link, but this is a very big, Pharaonic project, and it requires, in addition to the necessary Funds, also a careful preparation, so that it could became a Reality in the Future.

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But for the Speaker of the Morocco Parliament, the most important point, Today, obviously was the fact that CoE's Assembly, chaired by its President, French MEP Jean-Claude Mignon, quasi-"Unanimously" adopted Volonté's Report, which mainly witnessed Morocco's genuine efforts to advance towards even stronger links and shared Values with Europe on Democracy, Human Rights and Rule of Law, so that, while encouraging the Country to go on and fullfil also some more CoE's Expectations on some issues, (including f.ex.to ensure a bette treatment for Prisoners, etc), the PanEuropean Assembly, nevertheless, already found sufficient positive developments in order to comment the "Dynamic" character of that New Status of "Partnership for Democracy", and express the wish to extend it Succesful application to Morocco also towards other Neighboring Countries, from the Suther Coast of the Medierranean, up to Kazakhstan, etc.

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(Fast Translation from the Original in French).

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(Opinion).

 In Democracy, the forthcoming choices for EU's Top Jobs, as the New EU Parliament's President, new EU Commission's President (+ probably EU Council's President, EU Foreign Minister, etc) should be made according to EU Citizens' Votes in June 7, 2009 European Elections, and main EU Governments' strategic policies.

At the heart of the biggest EU Countries, in France and Germany, EU Citizens clearly voted for a renovated, non-technocratic but Political Europe based on Values, declared explicitly incompatible with Turkey's controversial EU bid.

This main choice was also supported in several other small or medium EU Countries, such as Austria (cf. promise of a Referendum), Spain (cf. EPP program's reservations vis a vis Enlargment), etc., while EPP Parties won also in Poland, Hungary, Cyprus, etc.

In other Countries, whenever Governing coalitions didn't make these choices or eluded them, continuing to let a Turkish lobby push for its entry into the EU, they paid a high price, and risked to damage Europe, by obliging EU Citizens to massively vote for euro-Sceptics whenever they were the only ones to offer a possibility to promise  real change and oppose Turkey's demand to enter into the EU :

It's for this obvious reason that British UKIP (IndDem) succeeded now (after many statements against Turkey's EU bid) to become Great Britain's 2nd Party, unexpectedly growing bigger even than the Governing Labour Party, as well as the Liberal party  ! Facts prove that it's not an isolated phenomenon : A similar development occured in the Netherlands, where Geert Wilders "Party for Freedom" (PVV) became also the 2nd biggest in the country, (after EPP), boosting the chances of a politician who had withdrawn in 2004 from an older party "because he didn't agree with their position on Turkey". And in several other EU Member Countries, even previously small parties which now focused on a struggle against Turkey's controversial demand to enter in the EU, won much more or even doubled the number of their MEPs (fex. Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, etc).

On the contrary, whenever Socialist and oher parties were explicitly or implicitly for Turkey's controversial EU bid, they obviously lost Citizens' votes and fell down to an unprecedented low.

In consequence, EU Citizens clearly revealed their main political choices, in one way or another : They voted to change for less Bureaucracy, but more Politics and Values in a Europe really open to EU Citizens, but without Turkey's controversial EU bid.

Recent political developments are obviously different from the old political landscape which existed in the Past of 1999-2004, when Socialists based on Turkish 1% vote governed undisputed not only in Germany, but also in the UK, Greece and elsewhere, France followed old policies decided when it had been divided by "cohabitation", before the 3 "NO" to EU  Referenda since May 2005, before Merkel, before Sarkozy, etc.... before the surprises of 7 June 2009 new EU Elections.

If the current candidates to the Top EU jobs promise and guarantee to respect People's democratic choices, OK.

Otherwise, Europe must find new candidates, really motivated and able to implement these democratic choices of the People.

The beginning of crucial, final Decisions are scheduled for the 1st EU Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg, in the middle of July, and they could be completed towards the October session, when Lisbon Treaty's fate will have been fixed.


See relevant Facts also at : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/2009electionsandturkey.html
http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/daulelections.html
http://www.eurofora.net/brief/brief/euroelectionresult.html

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