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"We have voted against the Sanders-Ten Holte report on would-be ‘Community cooperation with Asian and Latin American countries’, except in the case of a few amendments concerning humanitarian aid in the hope that this will not disappear into the hands of corrupt local political leaders.
In our view, the amount of this aid is derisory. It is enough to note – and this is something we denounce – that a pretended increase in aid to Latin America entails a corresponding decrease in aid to Asia. Spread as thinly as this, such aid is quite incapable of offsetting the drastic consequences of the plundering that has always been engaged in, in these regions and in others, by large companies or European and North American financial establishments.
By seizing raw materials at low prices, by carving out areas of influence for themselves or, again, by imposing their services at high prices, the rapacity of large European companies, wedded to that of their local friends, is the very source of the impoverishment of the populations of these continents. In recent years, this has even led to the collapse of several national economies on these two continents. That is because, far from eradicating poverty, all these economic trends in the European Union serve, instead, only to increase it."@en1
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