EU – Arab world relations: improving country-to-country dialogue

"The Arab world is one of the most sensitive but also most dynamic regions of the world," said Elmar Brok (EPP-ED, DE), Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, as he opened a hearing on EU-Arab world relations on 20 April 2006. Participants argued political discussions between countries, not a dialogue of civilisations, were the best way forward.

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