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"en.20141124.16.1-076-000"2
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"Mr President, the EU claims to be a development actor concerned about the world’s poor. As we approach the Millennium Development Goal deadlines, perhaps we should examine what the EU has done for – or should I say to – the world’s poor. Perhaps we could talk about the EU pesticides directive, which prevents African countries using effective anti-malaria sprays. As a result, 90% of the world’s malaria deaths occur in Africa, the majority of them being children under the age of three. Or perhaps we could talk about the EU fishing boats plundering the fish stocks off the Horn of Africa. This has destroyed the livelihoods of peaceful fishermen, who resorted to piracy against container ships in order to stay alive. Or perhaps we could talk about the EU’s vindictive behaviour in trade talks, where the world’s poor are banned from exporting their most successful produce to European markets, stopping them from trading their way out of poverty and debt. As you can see, the EU is an actor in international development, but a spiteful and an inadequate one.
The EU has so starved an impoverished Africa that it is perhaps no surprise that so many migrants risk their lives to escape it, but thankfully countries like India are coming to the rescue. India has invested money in high-yield crops in West Africa. This is infinitely more useful than the feel-good dance troupes the EU funded in the same region. The EU should stop impoverishing the world’s poor and let them have a chance to live. There are positive development actors in the world. The EU just is not one of them."@en1
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