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Mr President, if this new EU strategy were really adding value to existing programmes and polices, my group would support it. Africa urgently needs our strong support, including technology transfer, debt cancellation, resources for development and fair terms of trade delivered in a coherent way.
I hope this strategy will deliver greater coherence and added value. However, I am not convinced, not least because it does not evaluate the impact of our past policies and does not foresee any additional financial instrument to deliver better policies in the future. What it offers is more of the same failed policies, because the shocking fact is that the number of people living in poverty in Africa continues to grow.
What we need from the Commission is not a change of documents, but a change of policy, in particular trade policy, which continues to undermine Africa’s development potential. On economic partnership agreements, ACP countries must have the guarantee of continued non-reciprocal access if they choose it. At the World Trade Organization, the Commission must ensure that negotiations on non-agricultural market access take into full account the needs of African countries to protect their infant industries. On commodity prices, we must have action to reverse declining commodity prices. On services, the Commission must abandon its new benchmarking proposal that would force poorer countries to open their service sectors, in complete contradiction to what the Commission has guaranteed in the past about flexibility on services. On agriculture, of course, we need a complete end to export dumping, as well as support to African countries, to enable them to protect their agriculture up to the point of self-sufficiency.
The agenda of liberalisation, privatisation and deregulation has failed to deliver growth or poverty eradication. A new strategy must be based on new values: the values of fair trade and cooperation, rather than free trade and more competition. That is what we need to see from the Commission."@en1
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