Tunisia refuses entry to MEPs

At noon on Thursday, the five-member delegation of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) was to have departed from Strasbourg. Wednesday evening, however, delegation leader Michael Gahler (CDU) was informed that the parliamentary group would be denied entry. Gahler said: „The rulers of Tunisia have done themselves no service with this step.“ The delegation of the Foreign Affairs Committee had wanted to discuss the situation two years after the coup with interlocutors from civil society.