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Wednesday, 2 February 2011 - Brussels OJ edition

Situation in the Mediterranean, in particular in Tunisia and Egypt (debate)
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  Nirj Deva (ECR). - Mr President, the question I wanted to ask the honourable Member was: how can democracy flourish in societies where there are no institutions and histories of democratic tradition?

Democracy does not just pop up in an unfertile field. We keep talking about creating democratic states without having worked on creating the democratic institutions upon which democracy flowers.

 
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