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If the EDF system has survived thus far in an unconventional fashion, this is because the relationships forged by some EU Members – by no means all of them – with developing countries, especially in Africa, it is because these relationships are themselves less than conventional.
Rather than be suspicious of these privileged relationships, the EU should instead welcome their continued existence, in spite of the fact that the Community perspective has, in recent years, due to enlargement, tended to focus its attentions eastwards, at the expense of the south.
If procedures must be rationalised and simplified, two forms of injustice arise from the reform of the system in favour of the total communitisation and budgetisation of aid: firstly, the fall in overall funding resulting from the removal of the psychological factor, which meant that voluntary contributions tended be the most generous; and secondly, labelling a major part of cooperation policy ‘European’ serves to make action less visible, and, accordingly, reduce the influence of the principal donors in the region in question.
In conclusion, levelling will, as ever, be downwards, and will serve to offer the shirkers an undeserved smokescreen and to discourage the most generous donors, who will see their efforts masked by unjust and counter-productive anonymity."@en1
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