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"Mr President, as a shadow rapporteur I would like to say that the original premise of Mr Markov’s report was that trade has caused poverty. This is a position that we, as a political group, could never accept. For us, trade is one of the important tools for the fight against poverty.
We have a social responsibility towards the poorest countries. We feel that in order to attain the Millennium Development Goals, we have to create a trade environment in which developing countries have real access to the markets of developed countries. We believe there is a link between a country’s wealth and its economic freedom. We support aid programmes, but they must be effective. We must link them to the economic and social climate in recipient countries and they must be aimed at improving democratic governance.
The aim of linking trade and development is to benefit people, and particularly those living in poverty. Instead of spending large sums of money on direct aid, it may be better to invigorate poor countries through economic cooperation, including trade and the exchange of goods, services and skills, so that they can build their own prosperity. Gradual liberalisation at the current stage of economic differentiation is a sensible idea. Sudden liberalisation has not materialised in the case of China, for example. Although the report is excessively socially-oriented in tone, it does contain many proposals that will constructively foster development through free and fair international trade. Despite the reservations of members of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, as shadow rapporteur I have proposed that the report should be approved, for if used responsibly and sensibly by the players in this field, it can help to level out the differences in living standards, and raise standards in the poorest societies."@en1
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