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"We find some of the trends that ‘will to some extent form the EU’s humanitarian approach in the future’ very worrying and extremely negative, taking the form of initiatives such as the ‘EU response to situations of fragility in developing countries’ or the ‘European Consensus on Development’, aimed basically at African countries but also at Caribbean and Pacific countries.
An analysis of those initiatives reveals that the central issue of including ‘development’ as one of the external dimensions for achieving the strategic objectives of the EU’s major powers (CFSP/ESDP), which is tantamount to saying the promotion of ‘development’ as an instrument for interference and control in a strategy which, significantly, does not rule out ‘coercive military intervention’.
Hence a whole programme and panoply of instruments which, in our opinion, amalgamate and confuse the ‘borders’ between ‘aid’ and interference, for example in such fundamental issues as ‘state-building’.
There is certainly an urgent need to show solidarity with many countries that have inherited disastrous situations from colonialism and that are the victims of decades of interference, but such solidarity, in order to be effective, must be based on respect for the principles of national sovereignty and independence and on an effective and genuine development aid and cooperation policy."@en1
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