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Security concerns have always been present in the bilateral relations between France and Tunisia but they also turned out to be increasingly important at the European level. Through discourse analysis, this article aimed at looking for evidences of Europeanisation in the Franco-Tunisian relations both at the bilateral and European level as far as immigration and fight against terrorism is concerned. Bilateralisation clearly predominates, but progressive europeanisation took place in order to strengthen the French immigration control policy. Furthermore, although the cooperation is incipient, France supports fight against terrorism in the European foreign policy so as to develop political dialogue at the EU level. Adapted from the source document.

The insurgencies in Tunisia and Egypt seemed to offer great hope of the outbreak of democratic change in the Middle East and North Africa. However, the civil war in Libya and the ongoing crises in Yemen and Syria suggest that overall regional change may prove to be more difficult to achieve. The causes for the insurgency are similar but the outcomes differ because two of the states concerned were liberalizing autocracies and the third -- Libya -- had resolutely rejected any political or social competitors. Even the liberalized autocracies face very different futures for, in Tunisia a whole system has been removed whilst in Egypt, the regime rejected its figurehead in order to preserve the regime. Adapted from the source document.