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Mr President, Commissioner, of all the subjects we are discussing here, I would like to emphasise just one: Africa. It is on the continent of Africa that these various issues are the most acute. And it is Africa that has the greatest potential. The reality of demographic change is a two-edged sword.
In less than 40 years, the population of Africa will almost double. Shall we be able to make this dynamic a factor for progress and human development or, as a result of our inability to eradicate poverty, will it become an unbelievably powerful force that destabilises the world at every level?
Development aid is not, I sincerely believe, just a policy of charity or a miserabilist policy. No! True development policy must also be an investment in the future, underpinning great aspirations for Africa itself, aspirations for our continent too. The future growth of the European Union depends on this – as China has understood very well – and world peace depends on it too."@en1
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