Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-17-Speech-4-142"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development strategy for Africa2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051117.18.4-142"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-11-17-Speech-4-1432
lpv:speaker	lp:Margrete Auken2
lpv:spokenAs	member; DEVE (2005-01-26--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Socialistisk Folkeparti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the focus has rightly been on combating poverty in Africa. Alongside the input we have received from the Council concerning Tony Blair’s Africa Commission and the UN Summit, the Commission’s proposal contains a good many constructive features relating to the environment, good governance and the fight against poverty. We have also noted that women and equality have been included as part of the picture and that importance is attached to women’s importance as driving forces in the development of society. I must, however, use the short period I have in which to speak in order to highlight an alarming aspect of the proposal, namely the unduly centralised way in which EU aid to Africa is planned, using for example a Donor Atlas, as if we in Europe could sit and plan how aid is to be coordinated in the individual African countries. This practice is in direct conflict with those principles of aid effectiveness and good donor behaviour that the EU helped adopt at the Paris High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in March of this year. It is the African countries that should have the crucial role in coordinating aid, proceeding on the basis of their own strategies for combating poverty. If we do not provide aid in that way, we shall be in danger of seeing a veritable invasion of white elephants in Africa, and that would mean a return to a very bad strategy. We must stand by what we have said so far. Quite a few of the amendments in the Martens report take account of these centralist measures on the part of the Commission, and I hope that Parliament will ensure that the recipient countries, and not the Commission, continue to play a pivotal role where aid is concerned."@en1

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