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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I fully support the Schapira report – as the entire Committee on Development does – and I do so because it recognises the fundamental role of local authorities in development policies that are effective, efficient, inclusive and actually work to combat poverty and to fight for the right of all men and women to human development – examples of this are already legion.
In recent years the European Union has recognised in its strategies the vital contribution that local authorities and civil authorities throughout the world have been able to make, with dedication and creativity, to help democracy become what it ought to be: a practice in which the citizens are protagonists both within their regions and outside them.
Now we need to make those involved in decentralised cooperation, which in the main means the local authorities, not only managers of funds and projects, which are, in any case, going to increase in financial terms, but also operators capable of exerting a political influence on the definition and application of the EU’s development policy and development cooperation. We should do this by providing them, as well as the NGOs and other non-state bodies, with permanent representation on and consultation with the EU’s development policy bodies, with a view to structured dialogue in Europe and its partner countries. This report shows Parliament acting fully in line with its functions and the EU’s basic values."@en1
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