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Madam President, I wish to thank the rapporteur for his work. All too often, when we talk about globalisation, our comments and concerns centre solely on trade, rather than on the social aspects of globalisation. In fact, the European Union can play a very significant role in disseminating best practices through what we have achieved in the Union itself.
Despite the faults that exist within the European system, there are also many good and positive things. I wish to give just one example of this. Two weeks ago I was in Nairobi. In one of the slums there I visited a school which has 1 690 students and 22 teachers. The principal of that school was earning the equivalent of EUR 150 per month. The only reason there were so many children going to the school was because they were given food donated by the European Union and the World Food Programme. They were being encouraged to learn but were also being fed. I am reminded of the saying ‘give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach a man to fish and you feed him for life’.
One of the most important aspects of the social aspect of globalisation is education, because no matter how many trade issues you deal with or how many preferential trade deals you give to developing countries, the people in those countries will never be able to climb out of the pit of poverty to which so many of them are consigned unless they are given proper access to education and healthcare and an understanding of how systems operate. Our role, our duty and our responsibility, be it in world trade or in the United Nations, or even within our own development aid actions, should be to ensure, first and foremost, that when we speak about globalisation we place people at the centre of the debate. It is not just about trading blocs. It is not just about economic returns. It is about ensuring that the world itself is a better place for future generations. That can only be achieved if we invest in the people themselves."@en1
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