Europe and the Arab Uprisings: EU Vision versus Member State Action

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Herman van Rompuy, speaking at a European Parliament Plenary Session, 5th April 2011. 2 Joint Communication by the European Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, A Partnership for Democracy and Shared Prosperity with the Southern Mediterranean, Brussels, 8 March 2011, p.2. 3 Speaking at FRIDE seminar, Reshaping the Euroepean Neighbourhood Policy, Madrid, 7 April 2011. 4 Joint Declaration of the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean, Paris, 13 July 2008. 5 Interview with Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, El Pais, 2 April 2011. 6 Catherine Ashton, ‘Europe's downpayment on democracy', Financial Times, 14 February 2011. 7 ‘Trinidad Jiménez asegura que la salida de Mubarak facilitará una transición rápida a la democracia’, El Mundo, 14 February 2011. 8 ‘Zapatero se pone “al frente” del apoyo a la democratizacióbn del mundo árabe’, El Pais, 2 March 2011.