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"Mr President, for about ten years I have been involved with campaigns to promote education throughout the world. A hundred and twenty-five million children, mainly girls, do not receive any education. I am extremely pleased that I am now a Member of the European Parliament and can take specific action and that in this resolution all Groups are saying that the EU development cooperation budget should be doubled. We are not talking about more money for the development budget but about redistribution within that budget. According to Commissioner Nielson, we spend 5% on education as a whole and an estimated 80% of that on primary education. Because I am also rapporteur for the budget for the year 2001, I hope that we as a Parliament, in consultation with Commissioner Nielson – who has, moreover, said that he wants to move in this direction – will be able to double that budget next year. That would really be a concrete step forward, because so much of the money that we spend simply does not reach the poorest people and is not a step towards real development. Finally, we cannot develop others, they must develop themselves, but this is a wonderful opportunity to help them and Parliament, together with the Commission, will soon be able to translate this resolution very specifically into real action in the 2001 budget."@en1
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