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I would like to give warm thanks to all the Members who took part in this debate for their suggestions, as well as for their very strong criticisms. I will pass them on and will raise them during the Commission’s debate. Let me just reply briefly to two points. The first concerns the legal bases and the financing. Here we should not forget that one of the characteristics of a non-governmental organisation is that it should not be dependent on public funding. Otherwise it ought to be called a governmental rather than a non-governmental organisation.
So I do not have very much sympathy for the oft-repeated call for governments or the Commission to assure the financing of non-governmental organisations in full. All they can ever do is provide support and cooperate on projects. That is quite fundamental.
A number of speakers have addressed the question of non-governmental organisations and enlargement. I will answer them, because this matter is within my direct remit. All the ideas I have heard put forward in this debate have long since become reality. With our pre-accession aid, we are working very closely with the non-governmental organisations in the candidate countries; moreover our communications strategy, the organisational and financial framework of which has now been established, is also very much targeted at non-governmental organisations in candidate countries, since the aim is precisely to fully involve civil society in this important political process.
I will faithfully report everything else back to the Commission, without omitting to mention what I perceived to be the basically rather critical mood of this debate, and I can assure you that I myself will certainly urge very strongly that procedures are simplified and decisions taken more rapidly."@en1
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