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"en.20120419.25.4-638-500"2
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"I believe that the EU should play a leading role in the fight against poverty, however I fear that the EU has lost sight of the objectives of international development. I am particularly concerned about the emphasis placed on how quickly the EU spends its money. Aid is not just about offloading millions of euros from the EU balance-sheet into the accounts of developing countries’ governments. While general and sectoral budget support may be efficient, we need to ask ourselves is it really effective? Is money spent on most vulnerable members of society? Is the system of checks and balances sufficient to ensure that EU aid is reaching those who need it the most? EU assistance must be of actual value. Delegations should focus on how many people they have helped rather than how many euros they have spent. The British public are generous and open-hearted and wish to help their fellow man. International development gets bad press when money is wasted, or worse, misappropriated. In order to reassure taxpayers that their money is well spent, the EU needs to do less better and realise that aid is more about how you spend rather than how much you spend."@en1
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