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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have been a trade union representative for over six years now for a town north of Rome and I am well aware of how every particular locality has specific problems that can rarely be dealt with successfully by programmes at the national or regional level. Promoting twinning with non-EU countries might be an effective way, for example, to spread good practice at the local level too.
As rapporteur for the Committee on Development on the financing instrument for human rights I strongly highlighted the added value that local communities represent for the development of non-EU countries. Only those directly involved, the citizens most in contact with the needs and requirements of each individual community, can be fully aware of their own problems and above all, if necessary, together with European and international experts, take action with specific measures.
Particularly in countries in the hands of corrupt or unstable governments, an approach that places the local authorities at the centre of development actions funded by the international community would, in my view, make it possible to implement swifter and more concrete measures, with less waste of economic resources and skills.
It is important for the Commission, as in fact happens with the new instrument for development and, in general, the international donors, to recognise civil society and the local authorities as political partners in the challenges to combat poverty and achieve economic and social development. This theoretical recognition, however, must be matched by deeds, through direct funding lines of increasing amounts.
In recent days I have backed a campaign for co-responsibility in the granting of loans to governments, so that the flow of funding, which is allocated for development purposes to the beneficiary governments, is managed with the full approval of the representatives elected by the citizens involved. If thirty years of development cooperation have not yet produced the hoped-for results, perhaps it is necessary at this point to recognise the errors made and change course while there is still time."@en1
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