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"Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that ‘development cooperation policy shall have as its primary objective the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty. The Union shall take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries’. It should be noted that 74% of EU external assistance comes from the EU budget and the European Development Fund, necessitating a decentralised approach from the existing 136 EU delegations. I am voting for this own-initiative report, as I believe the European Commission should contribute to developing a long-term strategy for development aid policy, encouraging the involvement and consultation of local organisations, and conducting systematic visits for monitoring projects under way. As Bill Gates said in the European Parliament in Brussels, the EU must take the lead in analysing and identifying the possibilities for multiplying the resources of development aid programmes, involving the European Investment Bank and other international bodies."@en1
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