EU Policy Towards Central America Criticized
Berlin - Opposition parties and non
governmental organizations criticized the
double standard maintained by the European
Union (EU) towards Central America.
Jurge Klute, euro deputy of the German
socialist party explained that last year the
EU suspended aid to Nicaragua due to alleged
irregularities in the elections that was
never proven.
However, in other countries violations have
been detected in elections without affect
problems in bilateral relations with
Germany, Klute added in an interview to
Neues Deutschland daily.
Referring to this situation the deputy of
the European Parliament gave the example of
the United States by which George W. Bush
assumed the presidency twice through
irregularity in vote counting.
Klute pointed out that the EU decided to
continue suspending aid to Honduras while
refusing to exclude the coup regime of
Honduras from negotiations on an agreement
of association between the EU and Central
America.
For his part, Rudi Kurz, of the Nicaragua
Forum based in Heidelberg in southern
Germany, warned that the German government
had transferred more than 10 million euros
to the neo liberal government of Enrique
Bolanos.
Kurz who in 2008 wrote a commentary on the
changes introduced by the Sandinista
government in social policy in Nicaragua,
assured that suspending aid to the budget
would be stupidity and a very dubious
action.
While the EU blocks delivering of millions
of dollars in aid to the Nicaraguan budget,
the Latin American Committee of the European
Council decided not to exclude the coup
government of Honduras in negotiations on
agreement of EU-Central America association. |
