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"Mr President, I would like to warmly congratulate Mr Karim on his excellent report on India. It is a complex report, as is only to be expected, since presenting an overview of economic and commercial cooperation between the European Union and India, whilst also highlighting the challenges facing the latter, is a complex task. I believe the rapporteur has dealt with it very well.
I appreciate the significance of the economic and commercial issues contained in the report, but I would particularly like to thank the rapporteur for supporting the opinion of the Committee on Development, and viewing India not just as a country undergoing dynamic economic development, a country with great potential and an important trading and economic partner for Europe, but also as a country with a particularly complex social structure, and a country of great inequalities in terms of development levels and in the distribution of profits gained.
At the same time, India is a country struggling with major problems that are typical for developing countries, such as poverty or illiteracy. As I emphasised in my report for the Committee on Development, the main thrust of the strategic partnership between the European Union and India must continue to be work aimed at attaining the Millennium Development Goals and the war on poverty.
I would like to draw attention to two significant development policy issues which affect cooperation between the European Union and India. Economic growth in India has averaged 6% a year over the last ten years. Nonetheless, almost 30% of India’s population, some 400 million people, are still living below the poverty line, existing on less that a dollar a day. The level of illiteracy is almost 40%. It is vital that economic and trade cooperation between the European Union and India helps to redress this unfortunate imbalance. Our efforts must be directed at improving the lot of the poorest sections of society and at promoting best practices in the regions with the highest economic growth. Cooperation in the fields of health and education should also be deepened."@en1
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