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"en.20120202.31.4-352-750"2
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"This report tackles the issue of promoting energy access in developing countries, within the framework of EU cooperation policy. The report makes some relevant observations on the scale of the problem of energy poverty and the resulting negative implications for achieving development goals. The importance it gives to the need to adapt energy supply solutions to the specific conditions of developing countries, whilst emphasising decentralised solutions, renewable energy and the autonomy of these countries, also seems correct to us. Regrettably, however, the major contradictions that run through this Parliament also come out quite clearly in the report. In the end, what eventually predominates here is a completely subverted vision of the role of development cooperation, which is transformed into business opportunities for EU countries. There is a well-known tendency to interfere in the sovereign choices of developing countries, imposing models identical to those in the EU: the deregulation and liberalisation of markets – it advocates ‘market-oriented reforms in the energy sector’, ‘public-private partnerships’, etc. – that have led to situations of exclusion from access to energy in Europe. Although we recognise the urgent need to step up cooperation in this area with developing countries, we cannot vote for this report."@en1
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