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"It is important for the EU to review its vision, ambitions and appropriate instruments before deciding on the place that should be reserved for development aid in the upcoming multiannual financial framework (MFF). While helping others, we must not forget ourselves. The majority of the areas mentioned in the report – corruption, poverty, lack of good governance – equally need to be improved in Lithuania. In its latest annual report, Transparency International gave Lithuania five points out of ten for its efforts to combat corruption, ranking Lithuania 46
in the world, after Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Botswana. Both in Lithuania and the developing world we must increase our efforts to reduce differences in income. Achieving this objective would strengthen the impact of EU aid and poverty would be addressed more efficiently. I agree with the rapporteur that the European Commission’s Green Paper on EU development policy devotes too little attention to poverty. Poverty is not simply an economic phenomenon, but also encompasses social, political and cultural deprivation. EU development aid must include this. Most importantly, EU development aid must be based on the values of human rights and democracy. It must also be transparent – a modern European development policy needs the understanding and involvement of European citizens."@en1
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