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Mr President, I thank Mr Goerens for his excellent report. But what always seems a problem to me is that, in times of economic crisis, we change our view of our development cooperation policy. That would be fine if we were to be clever and say that our starting point is a coherent policy and that now we are really going to exert pressure on trade and investment in development policy.
But if we don’t do that and if we actually look primarily at how we can use our official development aid funds, then I am still very much afraid, Commissioner, that we are taking over the arguments of the other side, that is to say, you can do it more efficiently and, therefore, with less money. I can see that in my own country, where the contribution to development cooperation has now fallen from 0.8 % to 0.7 % of gross national product, and I will see it again in other countries.
So my question to the Commissioner is, when are we going to be really clever about this? When are we going to act honestly and be honest in taking investment as our starting point?"@en1
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