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I agree, I agree. However, I simply do not have the resources to count up the number of road accidents in the developing countries.
I therefore have to go by what the governments tell me. It is obvious that accidents are happening, but the lower traffic density and the smaller number of vehicles means, for example, that there are many more accidents occurring at the workplace, in the fields and so on. What is clear is that a very large number of accidents happen at the workplace.
As regards road accidents, I can only go by the figures that I get from our partner countries, if indeed I get any at all. Now if you ask me to fund statistics projects I will be extremely reluctant because I think that we do not have the resources to engage in micromanagement on behalf of our partners.
I believe that we have to focus on the big picture if we are to be effective; there is no other solution. If we start ‘micromanaging’ all the small details we will lose our policy direction, we will be into everything, we will no longer have a real strategy or a system to adhere to, there will be no more cohesion, there will be none of these things.
The questions that you have posed are clearly good ones and it is right and proper to raise these matters in our dialogue with partners, However, I must tell you that things are not as straightforward when it comes to arousing the interest and the attention of our partners in these areas. I have therefore promised Mr Bowis – who happens not to be here, but I made him a promise at least two years ago and I will keep it now just to be methodical – that we would include the category ‘disabled persons’ alongside our policies on gender equality and children’s rights. However, I can assure you that it is not as simple on the ground. Things are not nearly as clear-cut and each time we have to try and try again. I fully agree with everything that you have said, but I cannot do things for our partner countries that they, clearly, do not seem ready to do just yet.
The Commission is therefore pressing home all these points, which are relevant issues, but it cannot go so far as to micromanage everything."@en1
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