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"Mr President, I have today returned from Mozambique where the European Union has been responsible for brilliant humanitarian assistance following the flood disaster, but, once again reconstruction projects, where we have already allocated the money, are delayed while signatures in Brussels are awaited. Reform of external assistance “yes”, sufficient staff numbers to manage projects “yes”, decentralisation to delegations “yes”, increased emphasis on programming, movement to
financial assessment, streamlined comitology arrangements “yes”, “yes”, “yes”.
Late at night, when we have to be clear, even blunt and when my esteemed colleague, Mrs Sauquillo Pérez del Arco, has had to use the instrument of an own-initiative report to ensure parliamentary accountability, the Commission should listen when European Parliament says “no”.
First, the emasculation of DG Development will
form not
form external assistance. We want a single development directorate covering policy and implementation, covering trade and aid, covering Asia, Africa and Latin America, when the Commission still proposes to peel off these other policy areas, still proposes a hybrid with programming undertaken separately.
Second, we demand an end to the practice of draining external assistance away from developing countries towards the EU’s own borders in recent years. The reform communication of 16 May does not once mention the word “poverty” nor does the General Affairs Council Resolution of 9 October. We need to ensure the EU lives up to the promises made at the UN summits, that development is paramount, and to do so by guaranteeing a fixed percentage of external assistance to the world’s least developed countries.
Finally, we should understand that Mr Patten’s proposal for aid responsible to a board of Commissioner directors with Mr Nielson as Chief Executive is an unworkable gimmick borrowed from management text books and is fundamentally incompatible with the collegiate structure of the Commission itself. It is precisely because Mr Nielson is loyal to that collegiate responsibility that he will doubtless defend the proposal tonight. So I hope others in the Commission will hear us when we say we have a highly effective development Commissioner. Let us give him the political responsibility to do the job."@en1
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