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"Mr President, the Millennium Development Goals have to be achieved, and they have been described well by Mrs Kinnock, for which I thank her. We must face the fact, however, that it is unlikely, for the time being, to be possible to get the total budget up to 0.7% of all the Member States’ GDP. That is why we must also look at other sources of funding.
One of the proposals put forward, which genuinely has potential, is to introduce a levy on aviation fuel. Aviation fuel is one of the major contributors to the greenhouse effect. Such a levy would both provide money for the poor – assuming the money is used for this, of course – and would at the same time be in harmony with the Kyoto Protocol. Quite a few governments have, to put it mildly, been hesitant to adopt this proposal, and I include my own Danish Government here. I very much hope, however, that the European Parliament will push ahead with this development.
Allow me simply to mention another proposed source, namely the enormous amounts spent on our agricultural subsidies that are destroying things for the developing countries. At the very least, the damaging export subsidy should, in any case, be phased out as quickly as possible."@en1
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