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European Commission President Barroso addresses the situation in North Africa.

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen,

We just had a very useful and important debate on the situation in the Southern Mediterranean in the meeting of the Commission College.

The events unfolding in our southern neighborhood are a rendezvous with history. Europe will rise to this challenge and support the current transformation processes. The Commission has a crucial set of political and economic tools that we are already deploying and that we will strengthen further in the run-up to next week's extraordinary European Council.

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