This would mean undercutting and destroying basically the Neighborhood Policy and the Barcelona Process," Emerson says. "[It] would also undermine so many practical instruments of the EU's competencies, for example in trade policy, aid policy, justice and home affairs … on all these things across the Mediterranean, there are established mechanisms within the competences of the EU."
To bi u biti značilo podrivanje i uništavanje susjedske politike i Barcelonskog procesa", navodi Emerson. "[To] bi također podrivalo tako mnogo praktičnih instrumenata na polju nadležnosti EU, primjerice u trgovinskoj politici, politici dodjele pomoći, pravosuđu i unutrašnjim poslovima (…) za sva ta područja na čitavom Mediteranu već postoje uspostavljeni mehanizmi pod nadležnošću EU."