Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-06-14-Speech-1-066"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Judith Sargentini2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2010-03-03--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; GroenLinks (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; AFET (2010-03-03--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Welcome, Mr Piebalgs, Commissioner for Development. I should have liked to see Mr De Gucht, the Commissioner for Trade, at your side, as we in this House are now endeavouring to catch up within the next five years. The Millennium Development Goals are by no means on schedule, and yet we all put our signatures to them; we made promises. We promised – and I still remember the slogan, as I was working for development organisations at the time – to ‘make poverty history’. History has yet to be written. Yet this can be done. We can talk about 0.7% of our gross national product in aid, and even more. We can talk about new kinds of financial assistance, though this becomes more and more complicated in these times of economic crisis. Yet what we should really be talking about is a different means of coexistence, through fair trade. We are now patting ourselves on the back for being the world’s largest providers of development aid, but in actual fact we should be patting ourselves on the back for being the largest consumer market. If we were to engage in fair trade, a great deal of the assistance would probably be rendered unnecessary. Somehow it still seems simpler to provide assistance than to undertake to stop undercutting African small farmers. If we limit the opportunities for multinationals to evade taxes, very many coffers in Africa will be healthier. Also, when I see our approach to the voting lists for this resolution, with all the additions and deletions, I ask myself what has happened to the grand gesture; what has happened to our signal that we shall really attain the Millennium Development Goals within five years?"@en1
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