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"Mr President, I do not think anyone in this Chamber tonight would disagree with the concerns about the education crisis in our world: 115 million children worldwide do not attend school and two in five children in Africa receive no education whatsoever. Nor would we in this Chamber seek to deal with this issue in a purist way: we recognise the links between education and other development goals; that the fight against HIV/AIDS is crucial, given the 1000 teachers per year in Mozambique who die from that disease; the trade liberalisation issues
regularly discussed in this Chamber
which lead directly to lost revenue to developing country governments, and cutbacks in education. These are all complex and interrelated issues.
Nevertheless, the Commissioner will not be surprised that we continue tonight the debate about the budget we have had with him for four years. There is a need to move more consistently in the budget to ensure that Commission support goes to the education sector. There is just 3% in terms of education as a focal sector in the 7th and 8th EDF Funds. I acknowledge what he said tonight, supporting our call for a doubling of funds. We thank him for what he said, but the test for all of us will be delivering that in the ACP countries and elsewhere through the mid-term review and continuing the good beginning he has made in terms of re-allocating non-disbursed expenditure to support the fast-track initiative, as my friend and colleague, Mr Van den Berg, has said.
Of course, macroeconomic support is important. I know he will be thinking that. We should support initiatives like those promoted by UNESCO in its Education for All Global Monitoring Report that ensures the budgetary support of all international donors goes to the education sector. As my colleague just said, we should soberly recognise that on current trends the UN Millennium Development Goal of getting all children into basic education by 2015 - the most achievable and affordable of all those development goals - is going to fall short by 70 countries. We have to take our own responsibility in the European Union for putting that right and that means, in the Commission's annual report, year-by-year measuring of how EU Commission support is trying to turn that situation around."@en1
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