“The EU is remarkably soft in tone towards Egypt,” Marietje Schaake, Dutch member of the European Parliament says. Schaake says “there is often a huge gap and double standards. For a long time, for example, we were very critical of human rights abuses in countries like Egypt. The past two years it seems like the choice has been to be much milder towards General Sisi who is now the president of Egypt and actually making matters worse than they have ever been according to human rights defenders I speak with.” She is seeking to limit the export of tools used in torture as well as medicines that can be used to give lethal injections, saying “Europe cannot just stand by.”