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"I abstained on this report, which redefines the regulation on the use of financing instruments for development cooperation. I am generally opposed to paying out these funds, which are often used as a weapon in our relationships with developing countries and their citizens. Moreover, this report makes little progress with regard to the European Parliament’s role in defining the objectives which will underpin the use of the resources thus mobilised. However, I voted in favour of two other reports, which give a more precise idea of how these funds will be used: the report by Kinga Gál and Barbara Lochbihler, which focuses on promoting democracy and human rights, and the one by my colleague and friend, Helmut Scholz, which deals with cooperation with industrialised countries. With these two reports, the European Parliament has gained a more substantial right of scrutiny. This democratic progress is, in itself, positive. It must be used to refocus these instruments on cooperation that is genuinely based on the values of democracy, solidarity and respect for differences, particularly cultural differences."@en1
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