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Source: EU Observer

EUOBSERVER / PARIS – France officially announced the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean on Sunday (13 July) – the brainchild of its president Nicolas Sarkozy, who did not hide his pride in seeing the project’s official birth. The project – under its official name Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean – regroups 43 states, including all EU members, and will be co-presided over by one EU and one Mediterranean country – currently Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, and Mr Sarkozy himself.

However, criticism has already been raised about some controversial issues – such as immigration – being left out of the Union’s scope at this stage.

That is because while the media spotlight is on the ‘Union’, they would rather not talk about it. If it has anything in common with the same process started in 1995, then it revolves around increasing mass immigration from these Muslim countries to the democratic West, in the name of ‘cultural exchange’ while at the same time telling everyone else what we can and cannot think;

Cultural policies need to avoid schematic concepts such as the popular distinction between “Us” and “Them”. They even warn against further using the term of “The Other” which is standard in almost all intercultural education concepts, since it opens the gate for imposing collective identities on the individual. There is no viable alternative to their proposal of adopting a rights-based approach in dealing with cultural diversity – Dialogue To Hospitality, Traugott Schoefthaler, Anna Lindh Foundation.

As an aside, take note of the desired re-engineering of the population away from cultural identity in this document with the current actions of our own Government, recently;

It (the National Children’s Bureau) advises nursery teachers to be on the alert for childish abuse such as: “blackie”, “Pakis”, “those people” or “they smell”. – Toddlers who dislike spicy food ‘racist’

The leaders unanimously adopted a declaration deciding to work on six “concrete projects” as initial activities, Mr Sarkozy said. Continue reading →