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) In the European Parliament vote, I voted against the report ‘The EU Policy Coherence for Development and the ‘Official Development Assistance plus’ concept’. Conducting a responsible, effective policy for development should be a key focus for the European Parliament. It is something that I, along with many others, work for on a daily basis in the Committee on Development. It is clearly absurd and anything but responsible for the EU to take with one hand – for example, through agricultural subsidies that make developing countries less able to compete – and then provide aid to ‘repair the damage’ with the other. The debate on EU Policy Coherence for Development is important and valuable.
However, the present report contains elements that I cannot support, such as the paragraph on the imposition of a tax on financial transactions and the use of the vaguely defined term ‘environmental rights’. Large parts of the report – which was voted through in plenary – are very sound, however, and my ‘no’ vote should not be interpreted as an unwillingness to participate in the work on Policy Coherence for Development. On the contrary – it is a process that I am very keen on, and I am keen that it should happen in the best way possible."@en1
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"Alf Svensson (PPE )"1
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