Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-09-23-Speech-2-349"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Eoin Ryan2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, by sheer coincidence, Transparency International, the anti-corruption watchdog, released its annual corruption perception index today. It estimates that levels of corruption are adding about USD 50 billion to the cost of achieving the Millennium Development Goals, which is an absolutely staggering amount of money. It is approximately half of the annual global aid outlay. Even if that figure is exaggerated – even if it is half what they say – it is still a staggering amount of money. President-in-Office of the Council, do you not think that more needs to be done to try to tackle this? Whatever we need, one thing we do not need is for the general public in Europe to feel that the money they give to aid programmes is in some way being mislaid or abused. I think it is very important that a figure as staggering as this needs to be addressed in a more coherent way."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Eoin Ryan (UEN ). -"1
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