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"Mr President, apartheid in South Africa may have been abolished but it has not yet disappeared. For example, the disparities in income between the population groups are still shocking and deprived areas in terms of housing, education and health care have not caught up by a long way. Frustration is mounting, as is evident from the unprecedented crime rate and outrageous violence both indoors and outdoors. They may want to escape their past, but they are compromising their own future in the process. The key goal of development strategy should therefore be to correct the imbalance in growth created by apartheid. If not, that country will not be able to enjoy stability, will deter foreign investors and will remain poor when it could be rich.
Needless to say, it is South Africa first and foremost that has to set its own house in order, but Europe can and must make a substantial contribution to the development process. We therefore lend our support to the cooperation agreement, on the basis of the EUR 885.5 million, as proposed by our excellent rapporteur.
The Council has sat on the regulation for far too long. All the signs are there that its association with the negotiations regarding the trade agreement was spurious. The involvement of the Member States via the committee should focus more on the strategy and the indicative programme rather than on the individual projects. A maximum of 5 million seems very reasonable to me. This does not, however, relieve the European Union of its task of monitoring all projects well, down to the tiniest, and to evaluate them at regular intervals. The Commission delegation must be sufficiently equipped to be able to do this independently and to a professional standard.
Mr President, South Africa has enormous potential. There is so much there which so few have enjoyed. Economic growth is a necessary but not an adequate condition for development. What is needed is for resources to be better distributed and correctly allocated to meet all social needs. The apartheid regime has been abolished, all that is left to tackle now is apartheid itself."@en1
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