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dcterms:Date	"2010-10-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Instrument for Stability - Financing instrument for development cooperation - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide - Financing instrument for cooperation with industrialised countries - Financing instrument for development cooperation (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20101020.24.3-594"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-10-20-Speech-3-5952
lpv:speaker	lp:Alf Svensson2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"With the Treaty of Lisbon and the new External Action Service, we have the possibility of a greater presence on the world stage. With this, of course, also comes an increase in responsibility. We have a particular responsibility in all sorts of relations with countries that are not democracies, whether it be in relation to aid or trade. Europe and the EU should and must take the lead. The EU must show the way. Among the financing instruments that we are now debating, there are building blocks that provide us with the prerequisites to really make a difference. The prerequisites are there, but this does not automatically mean that we will succeed. In order for every euro in aid to have the optimum effect, our development work needs to be constantly permeated by democracy promoting initiatives and opinion forming. This may seem self-evident but, in fact, it is not for everyone. In the United Nations, it is the EU that takes up the cudgels. It is the EU that stands up in the negotiations against totalitarian regimes, and it is we who consistently and unswervingly stand on the side of the vulnerable, and, of course, that is how it should be. It is therefore disappointing to see that, globally, the direction of change is not the one we would like when it comes to democracy and human rights, and I have a feeling that some Members of our Parliament do not fully appreciate the importance of democracy as the most significant and fundamental building block for development. At regular intervals in the Committee on Development, we see attempts to initiate texts that subtly, between the lines, or even quite openly, give a degree of concession to totalitarian regimes. It was recently claimed, for example, that the main problem in dictatorships is that there is a risk that healthcare will be privatised. The fact that widespread starvation has never occurred in a democracy is seldom pointed out by anyone. This attitude is quite simply not tenable. In order for our financing instruments within the aid budget to function in an optimum way, we must place the promotion of democracy at the centre of all our external relations, and this must not only happen in formal contexts and verbally, without any practical action being taken."@en1
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