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Although the rapporteur was able to propose several interesting and valuable strategies in response to the challenge of ‘assisting developing countries to benefit from trade’, I felt obliged to abstain from voting. The observation that the key to development lies in liberalising trade should, rather than earning enthusiastic applause or violent condemnation (both of which lead only to ideological squabbles with short-term effects), be nothing more than a point of departure and a frame of reference. Given this inescapable truth, therefore, the best approach is to link certain obligations into trading relationships maintained with developing countries. In other words, it is better to impose conditions on aid offered by the EU and/or its Member States to those economic agents who, by acquiring raw materials or by selling goods and services, establish trading relationships with developing countries. These conditions would involve providing instant attendant benefits, which might consist, in practical terms, of obligatory technology transfers, building local capacity, providing medicines, building basic infrastructure, providing services to help reduce the costs of managing debts, and the like.
History tells us that attempting to change the ‘economic’ climate by imposing legislative restrictions has little effect."@en1
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