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"The European Parliament has adopted a report on the impact of EU development policies by very narrow majorities (by just a few votes at times).
There are a number of positive points: the use of a financial transaction tax to achieve the target of 0.7% of gross national income (GNI), especially for development aid; the need to eliminate obstacles to development, such as dumping of agricultural products, illegitimate debt burden, capital flight and unfair trade; the need to address the root causes of food insecurity, including food-price speculation and ‘land grabbing’; the call to end seed monopolies; the need, in the fight against climate change, to start by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Europe by increasing targets in Member States rather than in developing countries.
With this EU development policy strategy, the European Parliament is indulging neither in double-speak nor neo-colonialism; it is highlighting the real problems and the action that needs to be taken.
It remains to be seen when the Council and the Commission will take its positions into consideration. We should be slightly dubious ..."@en1
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