25 March 2019
"Recent summit in Egypt highlights the hypocrisy of EU discourse on democracy and human rights,."
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EU foreign policy normalises totalitarianism in the Middle East (Middle East Eye, link):
"Recent summit in Egypt highlights the hypocrisy of EU discourse on democracy and human rights, Last month, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made it crystal clear to European leaders, who pride themselves on democracy and the universality of human rights, that his regime rejects these values. His actions underscored this, as Egypt carried out executions after a “grossly unfair” court process and advanced a bill that would amend the constitution to entrench Sisi’s power."
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