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Conclusion86The current situation is thus characterized by a tendency to focus on ‘political’ issues andmarginalize ‘economic and social’ questions in the name of the transition and the urgentneed to set up rules for living in a democracy. As the foregoing discussion has tried to show,this preference is problematic insofar as these economic and social issues are highly politicalissues which alone can meet the expectations, demands, and claims of those who carriedout the revolution. Identifying the paradoxes of the current situation, the continuities with theprevious period, the worrying developments, and the lack of reflection does not, however, meanconcluding that the revolution has failed and that an authoritarian restoration is inevitable; itmeans, rather, trying to emphasize as best we can the stumbling blocks, the conflicts, the placesof tension and confrontation in which power relations and struggles between opposing forcesare played out. To some extent, nothing will ever be the same again as fear has partly vanished,the silence has been broken and people’s tongues have been loosened. The debate cannow take place even if it has not yet taken root in the public sphere as the conditions for itsrealization are difficult to obtain. But it is also important to recall the conditions necessary for areal breakthrough and a real democratization: they reside largely in the political economy ofthe country. Until now, the elites attempting to pre-empt the revolution have failed because ofthe strength of the unrest and the supervision brought into play by certain political groups thatare certainly in a minority but well-structured. However, the pressures and demands and thedecisions that have resulted have, so far, not impacted on economic and social issues, makingthese gains even more partial and fragile.
T U N I S I A A F T E R 1 4 J A N U A R Y A N D I T S S O C I A L A N D P O L I T I C A L E C O N O M YT H E I S S U E S A T S T A K E I N A R E C O N F I G U R A T I O N O F E U R O P E A N P O L I C Y87
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TUNISIA AFTER 14 JANUARY AND ITSSOC
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T U N I S I A A F T E R 1 4 J A N U
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E x e c u t i v e S u m m a r yMADE
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An alarming socio-economic situatio
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In public debate, the analysis of c
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half between conceptualization and
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I N T R O D U C T I o nMADE by Euro
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More specifically the report is an
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I. The rhetoric of ‘stability’
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I . 1 . T h e m o d e s o f c o n s
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modernisation and is now the engine
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I.1.E.The concealment of divergent
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I.1.F.b. Data that are concealed an
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of reforms deemed capable of settin
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