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."
По всичко това, засягащо всички средиземноморски страни, съществуват установени механизми, които са в компетенциите на ЕС."