Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-12-Speech-3-145"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-10-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU policy on Africa2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051012.15.3-145"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-10-12-Speech-3-1462
lpv:speaker	lp:Margrete Auken2
lpv:spokenAs	member; DEVE (2005-01-26--2007-01-14)3,3 unknown; Socialistisk Folkeparti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3,3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to thank the Commissioner. I believe we are all delighted that there is now such a sharp focus – both political and, happily, also economic – on Africa. Unquestionably, quite extraordinary efforts are needed if Africa is to be lifted out of poverty, and it is therefore appropriate for the EU to prepare an overall strategy on our relations with Africa. The Commission’s proposal contains a lot that is good. Concerns for the environment, good governance, women and equality, peace-making, trade and the strengthening of the private sector have been crucial in taking developments forward, although I could have done with hearing a bit more about them in the Commissioner’s speech. However, an extremely alarming proposal was also put forward for more centralised planning in connection with EU aid to Africa using, for example, donor atlases, as if we in Europe could sit and make plans about the way in which aid is to be coordinated in the individual African countries. That is directly contrary to the principles of aid effectiveness and sound donor behaviour on which the EU helped decide at the Paris High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held in March of this year. The African countries should be at the centre of aid coordination, proceeding on the basis of their own strategies to combat poverty. If we scrap everything we have achieved in this area in order to speak with one voice as part of a top-down strategy, what we are in danger of seeing, instead of a competently conducted fight against poverty, is a whole caravan of white elephants invade the African continent. I should like to ask the Commission what basically is the meaning of the four points in paragraph 3.3 and whether these contradict what we have said so far, namely that it must be the countries’ own poverty strategies that form the basis for our work."@en1

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