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". – I recognise the case for coherence. It would be challenging politically, to get up and make a speech in favour of incoherence. The honourable Member is entirely right about that. But one has to bear in mind two important facts about ECHO. ECHO is justifiably jealous of its reputation for delivering humanitarian assistance without political strings being attached and without any political infusion. For example, you can distinguish very well between the humanitarian assistance which ECHO has given in Serbia and the assistance we have given through the Energy through Democracy programme. They both help to improve people's lives made miserable by Mr Milosevic but they clearly have different triggers and slightly different purposes.
Secondly, it is very often the case that what marketing managers would call the deliverables are different. Very often with ECHO one is talking about food, medicine and blankets. With our rapid reaction facility one is very often talking about advisors, mediators, observers, customs officials, police officers, and so on.
There are differences. But I totally accept that there is a need for more cohesion. It is a considerable advantage that in this Commission the external relations commissioners work together as a team. We are about to start sharing all the programming decisions together. I very much hope that, without breaking down some important distinctions, we can ensure that the Community's various instruments, which involve the expenditure of quite substantial amounts of assistance, are moving together in the same direction. It has not always been the case in the past."@en1
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