Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-12-Speech-3-224"
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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for us, cancelling the poorest countries’ debts is, indeed, an absolute necessity if we wish seriously to tackle North-South inequalities and maldevelopment as much as underdevelopment.
It must nonetheless go hand in hand with the more vigorous combating of corruption, tax havens and globalised financial crime. Nor can it involve absolving all those, including leaders of states, who have scandalously feathered their own nests out of disregard for their people and for sound budgetary management at even the most basic level.
Cancelling the debt would also constitute a first stage in reforming our development aid policy in depth. A reconsidered policy of North-South cooperation should thus be based upon much more ambitious objectives, particularly regarding matters relating to energy, water, health and education, and should affirm and clarify the notion of the global public good.
We urgently need a very strong commitment by the EU in this connection, accompanied by clarified objectives and backed by much greater resources – a plan equal in scope to the post-war Marshall Plan, but with a determinedly European name and structure."@en1
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