If its North African neighbors are unstable, Europe will be unstable, which is self-evident. In this case, EU leaders should worry that the 10-year-old democracy in Tunisia seems to be in a state of life support at the southern Mediterranean border of the EU.
President Case Said’s move Dismiss the government immediately Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and Parliament are suspended and are now blocked by the military, which poses a potential existential threat to the single but qualified success story of the Arab Spring.
The moderate Islamic party Baath Party, the largest party in the parliament, condemned President Said’s actions as a coup against Tunisian democracy and its constitution. The parliament has been suspended for one month and a new government will be formed.
The “counter-revolutionary” that describes the situation like Ennahda’s is not entirely unexpected. Over the weekend, thousands of people across Tunisia demonstrated against Mechichi and Ennahda.
In the last decade of democracy, Tunisia’s economic inequality and unemployment have increased. The COVID-19 pandemic and the slow pace of the vaccination program have exacerbated public anger at the succession of the government led by the nine prime ministers.
However, although this is a national crisis, it is worth noting that as a series of countries in the Maghreb region (the core of the eagerly accepted Arab Spring in 2011) returned to authoritarianism, or became a failure in Libya nation.
The EU has the resources and financial tools that could have been used to promote investment and economic development to help the democratic government that emerged from the Arab Spring. In most cases, they are not used.
Except for the establishment of anti-terrorism and border management partnerships with the security agencies of Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt, North African countries have hardly participated in the regional policies of EU member states, except for France and Italy, which were in most areas during the colonial era.
For an organization that likes to talk about its basic values, the EU gives the impression that it does not care whether the government of its southern neighbor is a democratic government or a dictatorship.
The updated partnership between the European Union and southern communities was released in February, promising to provide 7 billion euros in economic and investment plans for southern communities, which is a relatively small amount.
At the same time, little progress has been made in trade relations, and Tunisia is one of the few countries in the region that is dissatisfied with the terms of the association agreement with the European Union.
Whether it is the Western Balkans, Turkey or Eastern Europe, passivity is often a sign of the EU’s approach. As a result, hostile forces have filled the gaps in the EU’s neighboring countries. But as we know, if your neighbor’s house becomes messy, it will always spread to your backyard.
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