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"Mr President, the current situation of crisis obliges us to look again at the Union’s development cooperation work and to make a serious commitment to improving our efficacy and achieving more and better results in the battle against poverty.
The European Union is, without any doubt, an excellent platform for greater and better coordination of EU and Member State aid. Now we have the opportunity to redouble our efforts in terms of aid efficacy, and we know that official development aid alone will not be enough to eradicate poverty.
I would like to point out some of the challenges that lie ahead for European and international development cooperation, and which will require us to act, and will probably demand a rethink of our priorities.
The first of these is development cooperation after the Millennium Development Goals. We should start thinking right now about what new international cooperation objectives must be set in order to end poverty.
The second thing is to seek new and innovative funding mechanisms. We know today that official development aid is necessary, but it will not be enough to meet our objective of wiping out poverty. We believe a tax should be introduced on financial transactions.
Thirdly, we need to achieve truly and completely integrated planning in the battle against poverty and the battle against climate change.
Fourthly and finally, we should think about how to continue cooperation with emerging countries, while at the same time strengthening our work with the least-developed countries."@en1
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