To bi u biti značilo rezanje i uništavanje susjedske politike i procesa iz Barselone," kaže Emersonova. "[Time] bi se također podrili toliki praktični instrumenti iz nadležnosti EU, na primjer u trgovinskoj politici, politici pružanja pomoći, pravosuđu i unutrašnjim poslovima ... u svim ovim stvarima širom Mediterana, postoje ustanovljeni mehanizmi u okviru nadležnosti EU."
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."