Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-04-06-Speech-4-116"
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"The report discusses a crucial issue in relation to EU aid, namely its ineffectiveness. The June List’s position is that aid should not be provided by the EU but by each Member State.
Just as the rapporteur points out, EU aid is ineffective. At the same time as relatively large amounts are invested in conducting a development policy organised by the EU, new EU barriers to trade are added to existing ones, making it impossible for the world’s poor countries to enter the EU market with their products. Moreover, the EU’s common policy on trade and agriculture is very harmful because, with its duties and subsidies, it renders developing countries’ agricultural products uncompetitive.
If the report had been about aid at Member State level, we should naturally have voted in favour of it, because inefficiency and corruption are two great obstacles to constructive and effective development cooperation. What, however, we are concerned with in this case is aid organised by the EU, which is why we have voted against the report in its entirety."@en1
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