Upon the visit of Tunisia's new, post-revolutionary foreign minister to Brussels on Wednesday, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton managed to ensure commitments from him that Europe's pre-revolutionary interests in the country - economic liberalisation and the prevention of irregular immigration from the continent - are to be maintained despite the change in government.
Ahmed Ounaies, a retired career diplomat, was effusive in his praise of the EU upon his first trip overseas since...
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