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Mr President, the Commissioner was right to point out how trade and development cooperation are very much intertwined. If we want to achieve the Millennium Goals in 2015, aid and trade must – as they indeed can – complement one another.
The developing countries need our help in order to further develop their regional markets, and the rules of origin must be improved as a matter of priority if they are to do that. Europe and developing partners must join forces in a bid to locate a task force for development, one that can flesh out this construction of local markets.
This task force should be made up of experts in the area of trade and development policy, and could help develop and implement specific trade-enhancing measures. We should, in this context, think along the lines of alternative tax revenue, the reinforcement of the production capacity and the standardisation and creation of joint external border control. Human resources, in particular, should be developed further. Practical support of this kind would be a real help in getting the local markets and mutual trade off the ground. With regard to the large infrastructure, we thought the EIB was a better bet.
This trade-specific aid should not, however, come out of our own pocket; it should not, then, be funded from the existing development budget. The Socialist Group in the European Parliament wants to see new funds made available for this, because otherwise, fewer funds would be available for achieving the Millennium Goals which are, after all, the chief goal to which the Commissioner, a moment ago, pledged 100% commitment, and in that respect we would like to wish him success."@en1
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