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We are, of course, in favour of scientific and technical cooperation between Europe and India and exchange visits by scientists within the framework of the parallel programmes. For this reason, we did not vote against the report, but at the same time we refuse to endorse it.
This is because, behind the façade of ‘cooperation’, there is a reality, and primarily that which has surfaced out of a distrust for those who are being exploited and is revealed by the very examples cited by the rapporteur. The rapporteur states that poor countries must do without the energy sources that rich countries use because they are too expensive for them. The report makes no mention whatsoever of the causes of this poverty: centuries of colonial exploitation, followed by imperial exploitation by India. The report makes no mention either of those who have benefited from high energy prices, such as European companies which include global oil, gas and electricity giants.
The rapporteur depicts as helpful the fact that the European Union is installing, in rural areas of India, alternative energy technologies, the patents of which usually belong to the above-mentioned energy giants.
The report recommends that the European Union provide farmers with technologies to process their agricultural produce, so that they can…
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