Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-14-Speech-2-383"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, for 30 years now, the wealthy countries have been unable to fulfil the commitment they made before the UN to increase their development aid to 0.7%. This is a scandal, and we are all here to search for new ideas.
I find it very regrettable that the Commission should have so few of them, and that the communication that you have been asked to read should be so flimsy. You did not even mention the British idea of a tax on the movement of capital. You only mentioned a French idea of a tax on the movement of aeroplanes. In this quest for new ideas, allow me to propose another one to you.
I believe that it was in its document issued in April 2005 that the Commission proposed the idea of a global lottery. Mr Michel, whom I myself questioned during a sitting in this very Chamber, acknowledged that this was an option. You did not even take it up. Commissioner, I think that the option of a global lottery is easier to follow through than many other options.
The World Food Programme, which took up this idea with the aim of looking into it further, concluded that, on the basis of an estimated minimum of 1% of our countries’ turnover being spent on each draw, four draws per year would raise an annual sum of USD 400 million, which the World Food Programme proposes allocating to the measures aimed at preventing children in the world from starving. Why did not the Commission put its own stamp on this idea? I take no pleasure whatsoever in searching for a solution outside our budgets: our countries should be quite serious about doing what they say they are going to do, but given that they are incapable of keeping their promises, this new idea at least has the virtue of not bothering anyone and of being unrestricted, if, in each of the Member States, it is the legislative authority that allocates this share of the profit to the World Food Programme instead of to the local State authorities. Setting up a global lottery is an easy thing to do. I therefore suggest to the Commission that it take the initiative in setting up the lottery and firmly encourages our Member States to implement it."@en1
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