Nun, wie verhalten sich die Mitgliedsstaaten gegenüber der Entwicklung in vielen arabischen Ländern?
Elina Viilup geht in Diplomaatia dieser Frage nach:
The EU’s confused reaction to the Arab spring
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Indeed, we seem to be witnessing the end of the so-called Arab exception, a patronising idea by which the concept of democracy is neither attractive nor possible in these countries. On the basis of this assumption, the Western powers have long made shady deals with the dictatorships in the region, despite the disregard of human rights and freedom of expression by the latter. The relations have been based on national interests, including stability concerns, ensuring energy security, and keeping religious fundamentalism at bay.
Da kann ich nur zustimmen, gerade von deutscher Seite spüre ich nicht viel Emphatie für die Bewegung gegen die alteingesessenen Diktaturen in Nordafrika und dem Nahen Osten. Das "aber" wirkt oft stärker.
Viilup kritisiert auch die Langsamkeit der EU. Allerdings gibt es da Traditionen:
Sowjetunion, Jugoslawien, nun so ähnlich mit den arabischen Staaten.
The events in the Southern Mediterranean countries and the Arabian Peninsula have unarguably taken the European Union by surprise and put its nascent common foreign and security policy to a tough test. The Union’s slowness and incoherent reaction to the events unfolding in what the Union perceives as its Southern Neighbourhood, and beyond it, has raised a number of questions regarding the efficiency of the Union’s common foreign policy and the lack of leadership at its helm.
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