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"Madam President, once again this year we have been struggling with the strict ceiling on category 4, given ever-increasing demands arising from growing international instability and a consequent diminution of the poverty focus of EU aid to developing countries around the world. But the whole Parliament – not just the Committee on Development and Cooperation – has been clear that development is a political priority overall in this year's EU budget, with support for the global fund against AIDS, TB and malaria.
The Council in its May resolution says it is committed. The Commission says it wants to retain its board seat. Yet the EUR 120 million contribution last year is reduced to a proposal of just EUR 35 million for next. No, Parliament does not want the European Union to provide the minimum possible. It recognises that AIDS/HIV is the most serious challenge to humankind today; that the United Nations has declared at least 7 billion is needed worldwide; and that proposals amounting to 5 billion have already been tabled.
The global fund represents a bold new approach – fast-moving, participatory and accountable. The European Union must demonstrate that it can achieve the same vision, imagination and commitment by significantly raising its own financial contribution and offering real European leadership in tackling the most devastating global challenge of our times."@en1
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