(ANSAmed) - STRASBOURG, MAY 22 - The EU Commission ''have
done much'' over the past year to implement the renewed European
Neighbourhood Policy, the European Commissioner for European
Neighbourhood Stefan Fule has told the European Parliament
Foreign Affairs Committee. Now, he added ''we need to do even
more: to provide effective incentives for reform, the European
Union needs to step up even further the pace of delivery''.
According to Fule, for instance the EU needs: ''to promote European Union investments in partner countries; to accelerate the process leading to Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas; to encourage industrial cooperation and social dialogue''. Fule underlined the support to the democratic transition in ''a number of Southern neighbours'', including an Election Observation Missions in Tunisia and Algeria, election experts to Morocco and technical assistance to Egypt. ''We have also - the EU Commissioner said - stepped up co-operation with the Council of Europe'', which is now ''strategic''. ''The European Union supported the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly offering 'Partner for Democracy Status' to Parliaments of Southern Mediterranean countries, notably Morocco and the Palestinian Authority'' he added.
(ANSAmed).
According to Fule, for instance the EU needs: ''to promote European Union investments in partner countries; to accelerate the process leading to Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas; to encourage industrial cooperation and social dialogue''. Fule underlined the support to the democratic transition in ''a number of Southern neighbours'', including an Election Observation Missions in Tunisia and Algeria, election experts to Morocco and technical assistance to Egypt. ''We have also - the EU Commissioner said - stepped up co-operation with the Council of Europe'', which is now ''strategic''. ''The European Union supported the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly offering 'Partner for Democracy Status' to Parliaments of Southern Mediterranean countries, notably Morocco and the Palestinian Authority'' he added.
(ANSAmed).
