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"As the person responsible for the budget for development cooperation, I have obtained a hearing for a clearer focus upon poverty. The appropriation for Asia, where most poor people live, has increased by EUR 37 million over the previous year. The appropriations for efforts to combat HIV and malaria are increasing. Furthermore, a new budget item of EUR 10 million is being established for vaccinations against children’s diseases etc.
(5) Last but not least, a reduction in the EU’s Budget ceiling must not be the result of enlargement and of new initiatives within the foreign policy area, for example in Afghanistan and Iraq, or of work on global environmental issues, the HIV epidemic etc.
Moreover, I have voted in accordance with the following principles:
(1) The common agricultural principle needs to be reformed.
Export subsidies should be phased out as quickly as possible because of their serious consequences for the developing countries.
Aid for tobacco cultivation should be phased out, since it runs directly counter to a proactive health policy.
Aid for the transport of live cattle should be phased out.
(2) Environmental policy should be better integrated into other policy areas. That applies especially to agricultural and regional policy.
(3) Savings should be made in a number of areas. For example, the Member States should bear the primary responsibility for the social dialogue.
(4) People need to be given better information about European policy. That applies especially to the debate on the EU’s future and on a new Constitution."@en1
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